View Poll Results: When do you turn TCS off?
Never. It is always on.
21
22.34%
It's off when there is no rain or snow.
32
34.04%
It's always off no matter what.
41
43.62%
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When do you turn off TCS?
04-12-2012, 11:07 PM
#1
When do you turn off TCS?
When do you turn Traction Control off? If you do, why? What horsepower do you have? Just seeing everyone's preferences 
For me, its off when I drive and the road is dry. If it rained or is raining or snow is on the ground I keep it on. I like it better and can control my car since 415-420 rwhp is not too bad to handle.
For me, its off when I drive and the road is dry. If it rained or is raining or snow is on the ground I keep it on. I like it better and can control my car since 415-420 rwhp is not too bad to handle.
Last edited by Shift; 04-12-2012 at 11:10 PM.
04-13-2012, 02:59 AM
#7
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Join Date: Sep 2011
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I cut mine off when i feel like ill drive like a total dick :P
if i just feel like being lazy it stays on.
04-13-2012, 05:24 AM
#8
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Indiana
Posts: 1,744
Traction control caused me to miss a fence by inches on the snow.
If the road is straight, traction control is off even on the snow. One wheel spinning with even a remote amount of traction caused a spin.
Its always off when the weather is good, too
If the road is straight, traction control is off even on the snow. One wheel spinning with even a remote amount of traction caused a spin.
Its always off when the weather is good, too
04-13-2012, 07:36 AM
#10
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Almost always off, regardless of conditions. The only times it's on is when I forget to turn it off, which is almost never. FWIW, with the FRPP tune TC doesn't seem to be very effective anyway.
In bad weather, the least risky way of finding out how little grip exists is by finding out how tough it is to get the car rolling from a dead stop. That should be your wake-up-right-now reminder to recalibrate how you need to be driving, not just an inconvenience in getting from point A to point B.
I learned to drive with nothing getting itself in between my steering and pedal inputs and what the car's mechanicals were doing or trying to do. And that's exactly the way I want to keep it. I don't ever want to have somebody else's computer program take over how my car is going to be driven, because that will take away some of my trust that the car can or will do what I tell it to do. Not to mention the pedal modulation skills that have developed over time would tend to fade away.
4.6L w/a mild tune, 5MT, 3.55's, very little hard launching but lots of hard corner-exiting
Norm
In bad weather, the least risky way of finding out how little grip exists is by finding out how tough it is to get the car rolling from a dead stop. That should be your wake-up-right-now reminder to recalibrate how you need to be driving, not just an inconvenience in getting from point A to point B.
I learned to drive with nothing getting itself in between my steering and pedal inputs and what the car's mechanicals were doing or trying to do. And that's exactly the way I want to keep it. I don't ever want to have somebody else's computer program take over how my car is going to be driven, because that will take away some of my trust that the car can or will do what I tell it to do. Not to mention the pedal modulation skills that have developed over time would tend to fade away.
4.6L w/a mild tune, 5MT, 3.55's, very little hard launching but lots of hard corner-exiting
Norm
Last edited by Norm Peterson; 04-13-2012 at 09:04 AM.