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Originally Posted by BlueSideUp
...I wasn't brave enough to disable the stability control for fear of landscaping someone's yard with it but the system allows for a little hoonage with the stability control on.
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That's one feature I hated on my '99. Had to remember to turn it off every time you started the car. Looked into getting it disabled - no luck.
Pulled into fast traffic from a stop once, with plenty of room if I got on it a bit. Got into the lane, just began accelerating and it cut in, suddenly no power at all, like the engine had stalled. Only momentarily, but made me feel real uneasy catching a glimpse of the car behind me closing fast until it lit off again. Seems to me I read that they desensitized that feature a bit in later years.
And, of course, it wouldn't allow ya to show off by roasting the tires.
I never understood all the pissin' and moanin' over the skip-shift feature. It only functioned below a pretty low rpm, quite a bit lower than what I shifted at even during my most relaxed driving. I don't think I even ever experienced it other than when I first bought the car and consciously tried to get it to work. After that, I totally forgot about it. I think that that feature could be and was disabled by some owners.