Lt. Dan M.

Isn't TC just for wheel spin and AH for keeping the car straight? I thought that was the idea of comp mode, that you could spinn but still have the added safety of AH to help keep you from getting to sideways.

pmurray

I like letting her rip as I come on to an on-ramp (With no one around). I get a bit sideways because of the slight turn, then drift a bit, straight it out and then shift. Here's where you must not over steer or you end up in the ditch.

85corvettec4

Just the car man, enjoy it!

Bluefire

I experienced the same thing. The back tires wanting to pass the front tires on the right side. I may be crazy but, I swear that it stopped happening when I switched to coil-overs. Could the transverse leaf springs been contributing to the rear-end stepping out?

Camjamsdad

I've paid alot of good money for my car to act like that.

But seriously take a look at your rear tire choice first off. Then research it for traction/stickiness. You give up tire life but a good sticky tire will change the way the car hooks up. A hard tire, like original runflats, slip and slide and don't hook up well

robert miller

To the OP here your's is a special corvette has to be my car still don't do that. Cant I get some help from a few of you guys to see what is wrong with my car...I can tell you this dam thing like gas.. Robert

MG RED 99

Please correct me if im wrong, but in competition mode, traction control is turned off which will allow you to spin the tires but active handling remains on to keep from getting sideways. Comp mode is what I use at the dragstrip. If you keep it straight then AH never jumps in, but it's nice added insurance if the car breaks loose, like in a missed shift at the top end of the track going from 4th to 5th but putting it in third by mistake. Scary but the car stayed straight and seemed to perform the way it was intended, by intervening to keep the car straight at over a hundred mph. It could have been worse had the trac/AH been turned off completely. Unless you're trying to drift the car I see no reason to ever turn off AH.

Corvette_Ed

You guys are misunderstanding what I was saying. When you have wheel spin in Comp mode it can get sideways, and AH is supposed to kick in at that point, but AH can only compensate for physics so much. At some point the physics is stronger than AH can manage.

95wht6spd

cold weather does not help.

jdot

Good grief, so many buttons and advice on how to put yourself in a ditch with style. If you've got to have "buttons" to help you stay under control you really missed driving cars back in the 60's like some of us old farts when it was just you, the accelerator, the brake and your skill.

Mattie Num Nums

Quite honestly even with my power I have only had the car kick 2 times and both where after 20+ laps in 90+ degree weather. TC off as well.

Lt. Dan M.

Watch the video clip in thread "please don't let this happen to you" Yeah, they get sideways....

cbhood

Actually these were the kinds the answers I was looking for. I understand traction control, active handling, competition mode. I'm by far not as good a driver as many of you but understand power and counter steering and it just seems like when you aim a world class sports car in a straight line it should stay in a straight line. I know stiffer sway bars will help reduce twisting in the curves making it more stable. Will it have any effect on the kicking out? Do 911 Porsches do this?

C5at16

I'm running stock tires, when TC is off I just spin and go straight. No sideways here! :p

Hauln1203

Amen brother my thoughts exactly!!!!!!!

Corvette_Ed

Then you're not doing it right.

DevilDog II

I've found that turning the traction control off, gripping the steering wheel firmly with both hands, mashing the accelerator to the floor, and closing my eyes works well.

C5at16

The swirly corners are when I am feeling devilish I just supercharged my car, it's stupid now. I spin going 70 with TC on :o

Corvette_Ed

Spinning can be fun.

reactor2

The fact that you can break the tires loose in an A4 is amazing. Not stock? 3.15 rear? My stock A4 with 2.73s couldn't break the tired loose just by punching it. Now my modified vette will go sideways at 70 mph.