Electronic Stability Control

[anurbas]

Forgetting about the warranty and safety and all tof those things....has anyone thought of or come up with a way to have the ESC automatically turned off when you start the car. Then if I want it on, I can press the button to turn it on.

 

[wallymn]

This has been discussed in a number of threads.
So far the group knows the ECS can be defeated by pulling a fuse but you also loose your speedo.

There have been discussions about a switch but I don't think anyone has built it.

 

[STREETS]

Pulling ESC fuse looses speedo? Hmmm, and does that stop the odometer too?

 

[anurbas]

Yea...I don't want to pull the fuse entirely. This seems like it should be a computer setting that could be changed. Putting on my computer programmer hat, when the car starts change the flag to a 1 instead of a 0. Then when you hit the SPST switch, you will turn it on. Or, putting on the electrician hat, change the polarity of the wires from the switch to the fuse????

Any thoughts.....comments????

 

[dtreter]

Why turn it off in the first place?

The ESC saved my butt. Another driver came across the center line and into my lane. With no time to really react, I swerved to the right onto the soft gravel berm and then left to miss the telephone pole (missed by inches) all at 50 mph. If I didn't have the ESC on, I would have been toast and would have wrapped my coupe around the pole.

The only time I turn it off the ESC is so that I can get up my steep driveway when it has snow on it. The ESC has a tendency is brake the spinning wheel and I come to a stop half way up because of it.

 

[anurbas]

Thanks for the reply, but I premised my question by saying "...with warranty and safety aside...".

I fully understand the concept of the ESC and I'm very glad that it saved you. It saved me as well, but I still would rather have the ability to turn it ON at my own discretion.

The first thing I do when I start up my car is turn it off. For whatever reason, it is very, very sensitive. I hit a bump and the ESC kicks in. Could it be calibrated? Perhaps, but I would still rather have the option of turning it ON rather than having to turn it OFF all of time.

 

[BocaDave]

Forgetting about the warranty and safety and all tof those things....has anyone thought of or come up with a way to have the ESC automatically turned off when you start the car. Then if I want it on, I can press the button to turn it on.

I'm with those who say don't turn it off.

How can you say "if I want it on, I can press the button to turn it on"?

When you are in an emergency situation, its way too late to turn it on, you're too busy trying to avoid rolling over, fishtailing or whatever. You won't have time to turn it on.

For the sake of yourself, your passengers and those you may crash into when you loose control, leave ESC on when driving.

 

[anurbas]

mamma mia.....

Should I have rephrased my question as......"I do not want to drive my car on the road. I only want to drag race it or track race it. How can I modify the car to completely remove the ESC or modify it to have it automatically turned off when the car starts?"

Would this have sounded better? Would this get responses to my question without all of the "great" advice?

Please nobody answer these 2 questions. They are rhetorical.

 

[dataguy]

The answer is what Wally said in post #2 (no commentary either)