Question about ESP

[Teknophreak]

I've read a lot of posts where people are complaining about ESP kicking in too often. I drive hard, but rarely see it kick in. (it almost never cuts the power) It seems that the guys that are complaining about it have had their cars chipped. I wonder if the extra power is causing the ESP to kick in at inappropriate times? Is there any difference between chip companies? (i.e. Revo is worse than APR)

 

[agpatel]

I hardly ever have it kick in, just when the ground is slippery....but turn it off if u dont like it, idk.....i dont mind it at all, at least u can turn it off 100% unlike some cars were even if u do think you turned it off it is really still on.....

 

[RJS5689]

agpatel makes a good point. It WILL kick in when it senses the car is goign to lose the road. So you probably have not been pushing your car into a situation where it will break traction. I've had my car squealing around turns w/o the ESP kicking in, but if it thinks you are about to slide, it will kick right in.

 

[gtiTom]

take a bag of sand and lay it on a roundabout. There will be quite a bit of slippage there and you can see how ESP works.. that's how i got my hands on experience lol.

It's really nothing to worry about.. It's a nice safety feature but sometimes we dont want it to engage when we know what were doing that may cause some slippage.

 

[KaynE]

At the beginning, ESP never kicked in... even though I thought I was driving hard.

One day, I took a huge 90 degree turn at 40+ mph, that's when I knew ESP kicked in. hahah

 

[Teknophreak]

My point was it seems like those that have it kick in regularly have had their cars chipped. I understand how the system works. Just wondering if there is a correlation between more aggressive ESP activation and cars that have had their ECU modified.