Thread: Teach me about T/C

Originally Posted by gimp

Traction control and electronic stability control are different, generally ESC is turned off in L4 while TC remains on. ESC cuts power from the motor as well as applying brake to any spinning/slipping wheel, while TC just applies brake to any spinning/slipping wheel (sometimes in combination with a limited slip diff to help transfer torque to the other wheel). TC can be good on some surfaces, but you need to keep power on and let the computer sort it out, if you back off when you feel wheelspin it will never get a chance to work things out. It needs wheelspin (loss of traction) before it will work, and is inferior to locking diffs and keeping all 4 wheels on the ground with spring pressure (suspension articulation). The sensors also fail periodically like any of these things.

Use L4 on anything rougher than a gravel road.

Not entirely correct, depending on the vehicle and programming TC absolutely will limit power output....to the point of idle in some cases.