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[LouNY]

I actually have to shut my traction control off in my F550 service truck on a couple different jobsites. It's to get up steep gravely hills.

The traction control will actually stall the truck out and prevent me from getting up the steep grades. They aren't very long. But your crawling through an area and going slow to keep from tearing something up.

Then a sharp 90° turn and up this small but steep slope to get out.

If the traction control is engaged, it will limit the rpms and apply the brakes to the tire it deems to be slipping.

Between the two, the truck will get almost to the crest and just run out of juice with the go pedal pushed to the floor.

If I shut the traction control off, the tires will spin a bit here and there, but it will crawl right up the slope.

Granted, the service truck weighs 17,900 lbs.

I have to shut off the traction control in my driveway much of the time in the winter as it will do the same just cut off the engine so the vehicle will stop in the hills.

 

[Grumpycat]

I have gotten stuck with AWD as it isn't 4 wheel drive. But in urban settings during the winter it makes for a much safer drive. You can't be an idiot obviously.

There is a lot of variation in implementation of AWD. Some do it better than others. Some just do enough to advertise and sell as AWD. Same as for hybrid, and synthetic motor oil.

IMHO among the lower cost vehicles Subaru does the best with AWD. But Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW, Porsche do very well too.

Haven’t stressed my Tesla to know how well the AWD works. In normal driving it works so well you don’t know it is there.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

So do I.
The night before I became a father, we were sliding around corners and doing donuts in empty parking lots during a major snow storm.

We paid the price though. Soon after the fun was over we had to drive 25 miles in that blizzard to get to the hospital.

On the positive side, since you had played around with the car and learned its behavior and limits, that trip to the hospital was far less risky.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

If the traction control is engaged, it will limit the rpms and apply the brakes to the tire it deems to be slipping.

Between the two, the truck will get almost to the crest and just run out of juice with the go pedal pushed to the floor.

A Mercedes SUV did its best to try to kill me in the dunes that way.

Nothing like being at the top, halfway through shooting a bowl, only to have a yaw sensor (or whatever) shut the power off at the most critical moment.

It would've been several rolls before reaching the bottom had my near instant "turn downhill" reaction not worked out.

 

[WinterDeere]

From German accents to AWD control issues. Little towing, and no photos.

 

[kenmbz]

The problem is the design for many nanny sensors is meant to handle 90% of the problems.
The other 10% , not so much.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

Little towing, and no photos.

I have one photo of a very rear heavy dump trailer being towed, predictably resulting in sway at the first mild downhill. You want me to find it?

 

[WinterDeere]

I have one photo of a very rear heavy dump trailer being towed, predictably resulting in sway at the first mild downhill. You want me to find it?

I'll be impressed if the driver is a Turk who only speaks German, and if the vehicle has automatic AWD.

 

[Renze]

If the traction control is engaged, it will limit the rpms and apply the brakes to the tire it deems to be slipping.

My previous S70 had that. It worked pretty good, braking the spinning wheel. You could really feel the other wheel pulling with a jolt, if one was spinning on ice.

My current V70 cuts power when it senses a spinning wheel. I turn it off when i go looking at the fields because it cuts power in the sand road, slowing me down. It makes it safer though, for inexperienced drivers when that diesel torque kicks in on the front wheels in the corner, but to me it is a pain mostly.

When towing from a soft spot i prefer to hear the diesel work, no torque converter, my dads 740 automatic was terrible with a cattle trailer on wet grass, you were either stalling in the torque converter, or as soon as the tires went around, you were spinning at 30+ kmh. Just drop the clutch at idle and let the wheels go around two or three times before youre rolling, with a manual.

 

[Dftodd]

My previous S70 had that. It worked pretty good, braking the spinning wheel. You could really feel the other wheel pulling with a jolt, if one was spinning on ice.

My current V70 cuts power when it senses a spinning wheel. I turn it off when i go looking at the fields because it cuts power in the sand road, slowing me down. It makes it safer though, for inexperienced drivers when that diesel torque kicks in on the front wheels in the corner, but to me it is a pain mostly.

I started out in my profession working in Florida where jobsites were predominantly sugar sand.

I agree with shutting off the traction control when in sand. Granted when I started, vehicles didn't have traction control.

I would hit those jobsites and have to rally as fast as I could for as far as I could go until I got stuck. Truck was a 6 speed manual transmission. So I would hit the haul roads in 4th gear at 45 to 50 mph and as it started to bog down, I would downshift to the next lower gear, push the pedal back to the floor and keep going until the truck was buried.

Then call for a dozer to come haul me the rest of the way in