I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO DO IT OR EVEN IF I CAN DO IT????

ITS SNOWING IN CHICAGO AND THERES SNOW!!!!!!


I DON'T WANT THAT STUPID ""TC" ON CAN I TURN IT OFF????

please help.

 

if your auto you can put it in low gear which will take tc off.

 

anything else... is there a way i can take it off in drive??

 

can i HAVE your traction control?

 

2.2's have TCS? Since when?

Edit: Ah, only the auto has it. My bad then.

 

It's not even any real form of TC..its so shitty

what it does, if it detects wheelspin, it CUTS your power! So you hit a ice patch, start to slide, you hit the gas and steer to correct, but wait, you hit the gas but nothing happened, hit it harder, nothing...im still slidingggggggg

this 'tc' blows ass

 

Thats basically what traction control is. Its designed to maintain traction when you accelerate too much or over/under steer, and the only way to do this is to slow the vehicle down. You would be surprised how many people will get scared in a situation like this and do the wrong thing, and thats why the computer is there to help with traction control.

 

Remove your ABS fuse.

It runs off your ABS sensor, therefore if you remove the fuse, you disable it.

I removed my fuse over a year ago and never looked back

 

you could just click your ebrake up one click & it should shut off

 

That is true but what the good traction control does is rather than cut all power, it transfers it to the other wheel that isnt spinning. The traction control on the auto's just basically turns your engine off when you start spinning

oh yea and the ebrake thing works as well.. Thats what i used to do in my old z24

 

it doesnt turn your engine off, it just slows it down so your tires have more time to grip, the only time when it is bad is when you need high rpms to go through a long patch of snow, and as to why you would press on the gas when on ice is beyond me, coasting is alot safer

 

the e-brake idea sounds better than the who's taking out fuses... thanks for i the idea.

 

I have no ABS on my car at all and I pulled the fuse and I STILL have traction control.. I'm guessing there is no way around it without a full deletion from the programming ...

PS If you are trying to do a burn out, accllerate full until you start to spin but don't let the car max rpm with your foot to the floor.

If you let off the gas a little bit the traction control won't engage and you will spin spin spin.

 

I think it may have actually been the "ABS2" fuse, i don't know for sure without looking

 

You don't want too.

Just last week,
There was another cobalt in front of me and it took about a minuite for it to get up a 25ft hill. I had to stop 3 times so that I would not hit them. They were spinning their tires the whole way up. I didn't spin at all, even after I stopped and restarted on the hill. I was actually considering getting out and pushing their car.

The moral of the story, if your tiries are spining instead of griping, you go nowhere. TC helps stop the tires from spining=traction.

 

I'm not sure if the e-brake is the same set up as it is on The HHR but i saw one where some one figured out how to turn off the traction control with a switch. I think there is a switch connected to the e-brake that you can connect a switch inline with and turn off the traction control.

 

Problem is, the TC in these does not compensate for wheel spin like every other car i've seen. it cuts your power to the wheels to nearly nothing. so you start to spin, TC turns on, and you dont move, or u keep sliding..its really dumb


pulling the ebrake up 1 notch does turn off TC off, but it also, engages the ebrake a tiny bit, and it beeps non stop

 

yeah tc kicks in if your front wheels are spinning faster than your rear wheels. i just put it in low gear

 

yeah im basically trying to drift with the e-brake... on the snow so i don't want to TC

 

i've been drifting fine with the tc on. i just need a little exrta room to get the speed up, lol.

 

I've always hated this "traction control." Low gear never disabled it, ebrake never disabled it. And I just removed every ABS fuse in the fusebox (I don't have ABS so it doesn't matter).

I don't live where it snows or anything, so I would really like to get rid of it. Sometimes my Shift+ will just spin into 2nd gear a little bit and the ECM cuts all of my throttle so I gotta release the pedal, wait a couple seconds and reapply throttle. It sucks!

There must be a way to disable it.

 

Yeah, i don't have ABS and when I'm in low it still comes on and cuts my power... I think this may have something to do with the fact that we are both 07's maybe? But yeah I really want this crap off.

 

Nope. I'm an '05 and it does it to me too. Just don't slam the gas all the way down when the tires start to spin. If you get the tires spinning and then give the car just enough throttle to keep them spinning without going WOT you will be fine and traction control will not engage.

 

i don't get why your tc is engaging in low. when i spray in low and the moons are aligned i tear through first, chirp when i hit second and its on from there with no signs of the tc. i don't engage the auto into drive directly from low if that makes any difference.

 

he must be putting it into I, and not L

theres no way TC will engage in L unless you've rigged it to