Where Is the Traction Control Switch on a 2015 Transit
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Does anyone know if you can turn this bollox system off?? 
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Re: traction control
by Custom155 » Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:16 pm
Go into the steering wheel controlled menu and untick the box. Takes 30 seconds.
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Re: traction control
by Mike » Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:30 pm
As above, but why would you want to?
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Re: traction control
by Mussels » Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:48 pm
Mike wrote:As above, but why would you want to?
I'm not sure about the custom but a few years back I had a Focus and all the traction control did was cut the power as I was turning right out of t-junctions.
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Re: traction control
by Mike » Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:00 pm
Oh the early versions were terrible, but the current one on the Custom works with the torque vectoring and I've only ever seen the traction control light come on when I'm being a knob, the torque vectoring sorts things out before the traction control is needed in normal driving.
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Re: traction control
by keeff » Thu Jan 29, 2015 9:07 pm
I had one wheel on the grass the other day and mine just stood still with the one wheel spinning. It is turned on but no power sent to the other wheel. Hope we don't get snow as with these sport wheel I could be in trouble. Any one tested theirs.
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Re: traction control
by deno 1 » Thu Jan 29, 2015 10:02 pm
Good news then if i can off the rubbish system...
Came out of a customers drive tonight and a little bit of snow on the road.......not much really.
His drive enters the road and then theres a slight hill .....not steep by any means..
No drama im thinking ......just hold the throttle steady and sail on through...
Oh no .......not with this van, as soon as a wheel slips the revs drop down......soon as the revs drop the vans gonna stall so gotta put the clutch down..
Im now stopped......
Tries again ......out with the clutch move 6 inches....wheel spins slightly so the revs drop off..... a hour later iv made little to know progress..
Some time later im still stuck there while about 150 other motorists sail on by probably laffing the bollox off..
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Re: traction control
by John Johnson » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:18 pm
My vans the same in the snow here , I stalled it and all as you say . The mk7 was better in the snow oddly from current experience
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Re: traction control
by g-man » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:39 pm
keeff wrote:I had one wheel on the grass the other day and mine just stood still with the one wheel spinning. It is turned on but no power sent to the other wheel. Hope we don't get snow as with these sport wheel I could be in trouble. Any one tested theirs.
do that in mine and it spins then just drives off..........quaife lsd,best thing i've done to it apart from remap 
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Re: traction control
by Mike » Fri Jan 30, 2015 9:38 am
John Johnson wrote:My vans the same in the snow here , I stalled it and all as you say . The mk7 was better in the snow oddly from current experience
Wow, the Customs must be really bad! In the MK7 I had to put it in gear, let the anti stall do its job, jump out and push 
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Re: traction control
by sezyal » Fri Jan 30, 2015 10:06 am
Didn't have any issues on snow, even with summer tires. It slips but finds traction if you keep steady.
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Re: traction control
by Mussels » Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:27 pm
I wish there was a way to turn abs off for the snow, I hate the system.
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Re: traction control
by John Johnson » Fri Jan 30, 2015 1:36 pm
Mike the first custom I had was fine , I think it may be the Goodyear tyres as I have them on the rs4 and they are not great in the snow either and that's with the 4wd and all the aids switched off but it plods along , grips not very reassuring . The tyres will get swapped for a different brand when goosed
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Re: traction control
by Mussels » Sat Feb 07, 2015 12:12 pm
I live on a fairly steep hill and yesterday morning the light snow covering had been compressed into ice. The traction control did kick in but didn't cut the power which is good, maybe the system is clever enough that I don't need to disable it in snow.
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Re: traction control
by Alar » Sat Feb 07, 2015 7:14 pm
Only time I really needed to untick the TC box was to get out of this snow:
Under the 25cm snow was pure ice. Otherwise Im very happy with the system, it allows just enough slip on the front tyres to get away on the snow without cutting the power. I have good comparison with my 2011 Honda Accord which guts the power rightaway when wheels slip. On Custom I miss the physical button to turn it off.
Other time I unchecked the box when I tried handbreak turns
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