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Old May 11, 2012 | 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by cliffyk
It just means you have a wiring harness, they are all the same. You would need the switch and an ABS module with the traction control system firmware (which is in EPROM and cannot be edited/reflashed).
Thanks for clarifying. The harness is wired...what else can I utilize it with?
Old May 11, 2012 | 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Spiral534
Thanks for clarifying. The harness is wired...what else can I utilize it with?
I am not quite sure what you mean by that, however for what it's worth here is the wiring diagram for the t/c switch.



As you can see the switch has six terminals, however as pins 1 and 6 are both +12V "hot in RUN" power there are only five wires in the harness connected to the switch--they are:

PK/BK: Pins 1 and 6, the aforementioned +12V hot-in-RUN power;
GN: Pin 2, the t/c momentary contact switches this to +12V to signal the instrument cluster to toggle the traction control on/off;
BK/LB: Pin 4, the instrument cluster connects this to ground (or not) to turn the t/c status indicator on or off;
BK: Pin 7, a ground connection for the switch illumination;
LB/RD: Pin 8, power for the switch illumination;

One last comment, if you do not have traction control then you also do not have ABS as they were a bundled package. In my opinion this is a good thing. as it means the car weighs some 40 pounds less, and you don't need either.

I've the traction control permanently turned off in the tune for the last 5-1/2 years/110k miles, and in that time have never had the ABS activate other then once when I was playing around in a wet parking lot just to see if it worked. If I were more ambitious I'd remove it...
Old May 14, 2012 | 09:56 AM
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Thank You.
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