My car has no Traction control!!!

[Avalon_09 Oct]

Hi All!

I have a 08 Avalon limited (middle east specs) and it doesn't seem to have traction control.

I was at the roundabout and accelerated hard, and my tires would stop spinning!!

After that incident I headed to an empty road and floored it, the wheels kept spinning and I stopped after 5-8 secs.

Does anybody know why the car has no traction control? or if the 08 avalons don't come with them? or may be its an XL sold as a limited here. (coz when it comes to thieves, we have the best in the business)

Any info would be helpful.

Best regards

Reza.

[grandpapa]

well only limited has push start/stop
I am pretty sure traction control is standard.

Traction control actives on slippy surface (when the tires start to lose traction) so I don't think your "wheel spinning" test is valid.

[87XJRob]

and I believe they changed up Traction Control this year, as it used to be standard on XLS and Limited; they made it optional for some reason. I test drove several 08s with different trim levels from several different lots and none of them had it on it; so I figured they had issues or didn't take the time to program it before releasing these with the new 6speed transmissions.

[AML]

Originally Posted by grandpapa

well only limited has push start/stop
I am pretty sure traction control is standard.

Traction control actives on slippy surface (when the tires start to lose traction) so I don't think your "wheel spinning" test is valid.

If the wheels are spinning, then that means there is no traction between the tires and the road surface. This is where traction control should be kicking in. TCS on Toyota is very quick to turn on, so if it equipped on the car, then it should have been very apparent.

There's also the possibility of a malfunction, but I believe there should be a TCS malfunction warning, if it were the case.