Tested the Stability Control TODAY!

[Old Dood]

Hehe!
Had to take the wife's car up to the gas station today.
It needed a fill up and of course we got dumped on with lots of snow over night.

After I SHOVELED the damn drive way I drove the XLE up to the station.
I was two tracking it about half the way there.

Just turning corners slowly would kick off the Stability Control. (Ding-Ding-Ding)

The Traction Control was on 50% of the time.

I am real glad to have these devices. One of the reasons I upgraded to an XLE.
Nice to know Mrs Dood has this car for daily driving...

Anyone have any 'fun' with theirs?

[Punks_Not_Dead5]

i'm about to in an hour..i have to get my mom from work. I've wanted to test my stabillity control, but i have deep ditches around lol and i don't want to get into trouble..i might find a parking lot one day and just mess around to see what the car can do.

i just did my driveway and there's 3 more inches on it and still coming

[Old Dood]

Originally Posted by Punks_Not_Dead5

i'm about to in an hour..i have to get my mom from work. I've wanted to test my stabillity control, but i have deep ditches around lol and i don't want to get into trouble..i might find a parking lot one day and just mess around to see what the car can do.

i just did my driveway and there's 3 more inches on it and still coming

I wasn't 'trying' to test mine.
It was just kicking on while I turned corners ever so slowly too.
I always give it some gas on a turn though. That must be why it was kicking on.
The Dinging is the only way I have noticed it ON. I never have the time to look at the dash to see if an LED lights up or not.

Still, it is a pretty neat device. I know the Pure Guys don't care for this stuff.
However, think of it this way...it will keep others from hitting you on the road.

[McNose13]

So, do the manual trans actually come with VSC? If so, how does it work with a manual tranny?

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[Yazovets]

The VSC works great indeed.

I had to drive up to campus for a night exam last night right during the winter blizzard over here. The roads were completely un-cleared. No snow plows, no salt, sand, etc.

Anyway, the car behaved far above my expectations. Despite my new Michelin X-Ice tires, the VSC light was blinking in the instrument panel like 1/3 of the time.

I was particularly impressed with the way in which my car stopped and cornered. The stopping was thanks to the tires.

But honestly I could still turn in a normal-looking manner. I was certainly not sliding away or fish-tailing.

However going from a stand-still was a pain. The VSC was the only thing that got me going each time. The front wheels immediately start spinning no matter how gently I used the gas. Once I got to 10km/h then suddenly I could accelerate pretty quick on the snow.

Of course the family's ML500 SUV is a BEAST when it comes to going from a standstill in ice/snow. However honestly I felt like my Camry slipped less when cornering.

I've never spun the SUV, but it definitely tends to "move" sideways more.

I'm real glad I went for the SE V6 with all the bells and whistles. Screw "performance handling purists". I like my traction control very much - no need to ever turn it off! In weather like this, I joyfully go around all the BMW suckers with their rear wheel drive. Don't get me wrong - BMWs are fantastic machines. I learned how to drive on a 330i. However, no matter what tires or features you have, going from a standstill always results in the rear-end of the BMW coming out either to the right or left. The car basically starts to rotate about its axis.

LONG LIVE FWD, AWD and 4WD!

I've kept the Camry in the underground all day today. Not going out - more than a foot of snow has fallen additionally. Today the university was closed.

I gotta write a 9AM statistics exam tomorrow. I wonder if the university will stay closed. In that case I'd have my exam re-scheduled for later.

[Punks_Not_Dead5]

Originally Posted by Old Dood

I wasn't 'trying' to test mine.
It was just kicking on while I turned corners ever so slowly too.
I always give it some gas on a turn though. That must be why it was kicking on.
The Dinging is the only way I have noticed it ON. I never have the time to look at the dash to see if an LED lights up or not.

Still, it is a pretty neat device. I know the Pure Guys don't care for this stuff.
However, think of it this way...it will keep others from hitting you on the road.

Well i made it home alive...traction control kept me in line...i love it...the VSC never came on at all, but i wasn't trying to break it loose..and i took it easy around corners...tomorrow in the day light i'll give it a shot to see how it reacts (just so i know how it feels when it happens)....

I was at my grammas doing her driveway for her so i parked my car on the road until i got enough done to pull in..and these two retards in trucks ripped around the corner fish tailing and i walked out to the road and threw my arms up..like

pissed me off!

[Yazovets]

Originally Posted by Punks_Not_Dead5

Well i made it home alive...traction control kept me in line...i love it...the VSC never came on at all, but i wasn't trying to break it loose..and i took it easy around corners...tomorrow in the day light i'll give it a shot to see how it reacts (just so i know how it feels when it happens)....

I was at my grammas doing her driveway for her so i parked my car on the road until i got enough done to pull in..and these two retards in trucks ripped around the corner fish tailing and i walked out to the road and threw my arms up..like

pissed me off!

I know this may sound like a wide generalization. However, a significant portion of pickup drivers posses VERY LOW levels of intelligence and are rednecks. Thus, what you wrote wasn't surprising to me.

[Punks_Not_Dead5]

Originally Posted by Yazovets

I know this may sound like a wide generalization. However, a significant portion of pickup drivers posses VERY LOW levels of intelligence and are rednecks. Thus, what you wrote wasn't surprising to me.

i hope the Tundra and Tacoma guys don't see this.....and i do live in the country and almost everyone does drive a pickup..and they're responsable...

But these guys..in a subdivision...where kids were playing in the snow..

frickin morons..showing off. In a way i wished they had hit my car...cause they would have been fucked big time...but i'm also glad they didn't because i love my car..and i would have killed them and ended up in prison

[CamrySExxx]

I wish my car had all those fancy bells and whistles. The gen6 camry is horrible in the snow, well mine is! The tires blow (mxv 4) and it will get stuck so easily. Luckily its sitting in the garage until all this snow goes away.

[geoff5093]

I can see how the traction control can come in useful and is a pretty good safety feature as well, however since you can't turn it off theres really no way for you to have some fun in the snow by doing donuts and such. But of course, safety comes first

[Punks_Not_Dead5]

Originally Posted by geoff5093

I can see how the traction control can come in useful and is a pretty good safety feature as well, however since you can't turn it off theres really no way for you to have some fun in the snow by doing donuts and such. But of course, safety comes first

You can turn it off in the Gen 5

[geoff5093]

Originally Posted by Punks_Not_Dead5

You can turn it off in the Gen 5

I didn't even know the Gen 5 had traction control..

[Old Dood]

In my 2000 Park Ave I can turn off the TC.
I had to yesterday...I got stuck pulling into work.

Really pissed me off. The only way to successfully 'Rock' your car out of snow is by not having TC.

I just hope I didn't toast my tranny on the Park Ave getting out...

[Punks_Not_Dead5]

mine has all the safety features...VSC, Trac control, side airbags...everything but Nav.

Maybe it was an option? i bought the car used so maybe the guy got it fully loaded w/o nav.