This morning 5 " of snow. tires spin, traction light on, no move. No power to wheels. pull up a notch on e brake, pulled out of the snow out of the driveway and up the hills to 684. What gives, first car with TC. Is this how it is supposed to work? Could my B&M shiftplus unit being on cause this. Dealer problem?

 

Well, tc just limits the amount of RPMs due to the amount of slippage... But there should still be some power to the wheels... Even though only one is going to be moving. But I would doubt if your shiftplus would be throwing it off.

 

MINE DOES THE SAME!!
I hate it ice or snow it stops for a few seconds when i turn out into intersections.

 

i had troubles getting up a really steep driveway in the snow cuz of TC. Put it in L (i think) and that kills the TC.

 

Yeah but when your turning out onto a busy road with a 55 speed limit and suddenly about 4 foot into your turn poof your wheel power cuts out and for 2 seconds my first thought is "oh **** i hope that guy dosent slam into me" then the car starts moving slowly. TC is honestly the scariest crappiest option on my car and it can't be turned off.

 

Pffew! I'm glad the 5 speed models don't have that feature, lol.

 

yea ebrake up one click or in low it with disengage

 

Just pull it into LOW just before getting to the intersection..... HOLD ON and use the throttle!

 

I know what you guys are saying about the shifting and the E brake method but when you have been driving for 11 years w/o having to down shift in a auto fwd car just to avoid having your car potentially kill you its not really what i would call a natural thought.

if i could disengague the e brake dinger id drive around with the e brake up one click all the time.

 

Chev should not call that "feature" Traction Control - it should be called "Emergency wheelspin fuel cut" and it is LAME because it does nothing to actually help your TRACTION out!

 

Just turn the radio up all the way and the dinging actually goes away. Or you could disconnect the left door speaker.

 

Someone needs to come up with a switch to shut it off. Seems like you could tap in to the wires going to the ABS wheel sensors and create a loop that fools the pcm into thinking the tires are all spinning at the same rate even when they aren't.

 

pull the fuse....

 

is there a way to take the E-Brake Dinger off?

 

i dont have the TC in my g5 sence its a 5 speed put i do have it in my cavalier. 1st and sec gear the TC is off then 3 and D its on. when your hiting the gas and the cars just stuck and its makeing that funny pop pop sound you have to turn the TC off and give the car some gas to spin its way out. my cavalier is the same way and my dads malibu is. the TC is so you dont lose traction geting up a hill once the light turnes on keep on the gas thats what i always did and it would pass everyone stuck on the hills. my sunfire had the switch to turn the TC off the cavalier dont.

 

As far as i can tell it is attached with somthing else like the ECU so i can't just pull a fuse.

 

Just disconnect the front left speaker, bingo, no ding.

 

Yeah but The word ghetto comes to mind

 

Yea, I think i will pass on that

 

.....or you guys could ditch the B&M Shiftplus and rinky dink e-brake methods and get an HPTuners tune. Not only can you do more than the B&M Shiftplus unit, but you can also disable traction control completely. Best part: it'd all be on the factory TCM rather than some intrusive extra unit and half-assed workarounds.

 

Agreed about the tuning. Thats why mine still dings!