Traction Control

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Had it three days. 2015 Denali PU 6.2 eight speed. I love it... but! This morning I had to get out into traffic in a bit of a hurry because of all the darned trucks etc. I pulled out in the center of six lanes, when my opening came, I pushed sort of hard on the gas and got it going sideways. It was fun, but we have to remember I was getting into traffic on a major highway. Traction control was on because the roads were wet. A couple more times I lit the rears up just leaving lights.

 

My Wife had a Chrysler 300 with the big Hemi and all that traction control. You couldn't turn a tire one full turn without the traction control limiting the power to stop the spinning. So is it just me expecting more than I have or is the traction control supposed to work the same way whether it's on or off?

 

I finally tried 4 wheel auto and the spinning stopped.

 

 

[tnchevy]

My 2014 with the 5.3 does the same thing. My 2012 F150 work truck does the opposite, you can't spin the tires even if you try because traction control kicks on so fast. The traction control does work though because I drive a windy mountain road with some pretty mean switchbacks every Sunday and I will make the truck spin just for fun and the TC will eventually catch but if I turn off TC I can melt the tires if I want to.

[seasled]

Had it three days. 2015 Denali PU 6.2 eight speed. I love it... but! This morning I had to get out into traffic in a bit of a hurry because of all the darned trucks etc. I pulled out in the center of six lanes, when my opening came, I pushed sort of hard on the gas and got it going sideways. It was fun, but we have to remember I was getting into traffic on a major highway. Traction control was on because the roads were wet. A couple more times I lit the rears up just leaving lights.

 

My Wife had a Chrysler 300 with the big Hemi and all that traction control. You couldn't turn a tire one full turn without the traction control limiting the power to stop the spinning. So is it just me expecting more than I have or is the traction control supposed to work the same way whether it's on or off?

 

I finally tried 4 wheel auto and the spinning stopped.

 

 

Traction control is always on, if you press the TC button you are disengaging it .

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When I push the TC button once I get the message on the dash that says either TC is disengaged next push, it tells me it's engaged. It's a toggle as far as I can tell. Maybe they changed it this year???

[werked]

Traction control is always on, if you press the TC button you are disengaging it .

Right, it is a toggle in the 2015.

 

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[seasled]

Ok, sounds different, 14 Chevy , I have a toggle also. If I press it once, it disengages TC, and if I press it again and hold it down it disengages stabilitrack

[speedbump]

I did check on the always on part. When you start the truck, it is turned on "default". If I push it once it turns TC off. A second push turns it back on. I don't see any message about stabiltrack. I'm not even sure what it is. I read something about it. Isn't it for pulling a trailer?

 

Here's another weird thing. My old 2001 Sierra C-3 had memory seats. You would set it up, get in the truck, push one or two and the seat would return to the memorized position. In the 2015, you have to hold the 1 and two buttons until the seat gets to it's stop point. Isn't that kind of counter productive? Same with the button that puts the seat back for getting out.

[Dirtbiker]

You have to hold the TC button down for five seconds until it signals stabiltrac off. Traction control detunes the motor to stop spinning tires. Stabilitrac kicks in and plays with your brakes when you start sliding sideways. Stabilitrac will come back on automatically at 56kph. I personally hate it all.

[fondupot]

You're wifes Chrysler 300 has close to a 50/50 weight distribution.

 

Pickup trucks has more weight in the front compared to the back. It's gonna be way easier to spin the tires on the truck. Even with traction control turned on.

[Britt Lifsey]

Always thought traction control in a pick-up was either several kids or cement blocks in the bed

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Always thought traction control in a pick-up was either several kids or cement blocks in the bed

 

That's how it was when I was a kid.

You're wifes Chrysler 300 has close to a 50/50 weight distribution.

Pickup trucks has more weight in the front compared to the back. It's gonna be way easier to spin the tires on the truck. Even with traction control turned on.

 

I haven't tried to burn the tires off the truck yet. With the speed at which those special run flat soft, short handle well tires lost tread, I only did it once with hers. I stopped, floored it, burned through first, ref limited for a half second, lit them again all the way through second, rev limited again and got out of it. Probably put 20,000 miles on at least one tire.

You have to hold the TC button down for five seconds until it signals stabiltrac off. Traction control detunes the motor to stop spinning tires. Stabilitrac kicks in and plays with your brakes when you start sliding sideways. Stabilitrac will come back on automatically at 56kph. I personally hate it all.

You have to hold the TC button down for five seconds until it signals stabiltrac off. Traction control detunes the motor to stop spinning tires. Stabilitrac kicks in and plays with your brakes when you start sliding sideways. Stabilitrac will come back on automatically at 56kph. I personally hate it all.

 

I'll try the holding the button down and see what happens. I doubt I'll ever be in a situation where I wold need that, but I guess I paid for it, so might as well let it do it's thing. I don't hate all this stuff cause it's fun to play with. Will I ever need it? I doubt it. Four wheel auto works very nicely as a traction control.