Traction Control Issue After Coming Out of Driveways

[smirn0ff]

gas pedal to the ground and the TCS will not activate.
I have similar behavior with TCS, several times in very urgent conditions it pulled me back the throttle and I was very close from to be hit from other vehicle.
Solution is when you need power, push the gas pedal hard

 

[Nikgen]

I never experienced this with my 2009 or 2012 Gen-1 cars but it is a problem in my Gen-2 HTRAC. There is one corner in particular where when turning right the right rear wheel is lightly loaded due to the road camber and the car basically loses all power for an instant. I am not using anywhere near full throttle, just normal acceleration from a stop.

It is definitely a problem with the traction control programming. What I don't understand is why this even occurs on an AWD vehicle. If traction is reduced or lost on one wheel, shouldn't the system just adjust the power to the other three wheels?

Exactly - and it should transfer that power immediately with no perceptible lag. It happened to me again yesterday so I'm going to open up a formal complaint on it when I drop my car back off for rattling sunroof issues next week.

Depending on what the dealer says, I'll escalate to HMA as well - I would recommend others experiencing this potential safety issue do the same.