Leave stability control on!

[manbridge 74]

Unless you've a cup car with motorsports ECU turning off PSM only makes it less sensitive.

You COULD completely turn off the old TC or TSC by button (whichever it was).

[dentist90]

Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy

The ONLY time I turn off traction or stability control is in the snow around town. Most cars cut power when they sense wheelspin, which can be a real problem in the snow. There's nothing worse than trying to get across a slushy intersection and having the computer cut all power. Of course I am also driving conservatively in a 4wd vehicle, not exactly competition driving.

Tru dat. On snow covered driveways with an uphill grade you cannot get out without defeating the ESP, need to allow tirespin when traction is that low. A previous poster said he had his car 45 degrees sideways before electronics saved him. My experience is that ESP will have you understeering straight off the road if you enter a corner too fast on snow. I like to drift around tight corners in the winter, mind you only going 30 mph or so. I forgot to turn off ESP and entered a corner expecting to apply throttle and rotate thru the corner. Understeer... more gas... still understeer.... straight into the ditch at 15 mph. ESP would not allow any acceleration once it detected the front wheels were slipping. So for winter driving (which is half the year up here) I defeat the ESP. But that is at lower speeds on very slick surfaces. Going around a corner sideways is not the fastest way around a track, backwards even less so.

[masraum]

Very interesting. I would have expected more backlash to the article. I would have expected more of the "Stab Ctrl slows me down" or "if you leave it on, you'll never learn how to drive" or whatever. In some ways, "if you leave it on and rely on it to bail you out, you'll never learn to drive" is probably true, if you don't actually try to learn how to drive and how to not do what you did wrong previously. If you never change and let it bail you out over and over again, you may not ever learn, but if you're that type, you may not learn how to drive anyway. Still, since that sort will probably be acting like a moron on the road with the rest of us, I'm all for his stab. ctrl keeping him (or her) in check before he takes one of the rest of us out.

[ted]

I always leave it on while on the street.
Seen a guy turn it off for a canyon run and totaled his car.

My old C5Z06 active handling was primitive and very intrusive.
It also would dab the brakes too much and create too much heat for continuous laps.
If you forgot to turn it off you could tell in a long 60 mph sweeper.
Felt like the E brake dragging.

None of my dedicated race cars have abs or nannies of any type.

[Arizona_928]

Originally Posted by masraum

Very interesting. I would have expected more backlash to the article. I would have expected more of the "Stab Ctrl slows me down" or "if you leave it on, you'll never learn how to drive" or whatever.

We're not a mustang forum.