TOTALLY TUNING OF ESP (TRACTION CONTROL) on TT

[ascrawley]

ANNOYING, ANNOYING, ANNOYING ESP!

anyone know how to really turn it off? even when it is supposedly off, it always flashes on when you hit anything remotely slippy, annoying!!!!

[Gren]

Is this the MkI or II?

When I turn off the ESP on my MkI the light stays on so cannot flash.

[ascrawley]

i was presuming that when the light is on, that means the traction control is permanently on?

[jep]

If the light's on the dash constantly after you've pressed the ESP button, it's been turned off. If you haven't pushed any button and it's still on all the time, I'd suggest you have a problem and you need to get it checked out. A Vagcom diagnostic check should throw up any fault codes.

[ascrawley]

right, it must be me being stupid, i presumed that when the dashlight was on it meant the traction control was on?!? having said that, when you push the button on the centre console (and the light comes on the dash) the button is also illuminated.

haha, to be honest i cant even believe we are talking about this shizzle!

[clived]

When you push the button to turn the ESP off, it still lurks in the background, ready if things get really, really, out of shape. The only way I know to disable it totally is to unplug the MAF (the ECU for ESP relies on a signal from the MAF) - but of course you're likely to lose some power this way.

[SunDiver]

Audi traction control is somewhat sensitive. Have you recently replaced the tyres on one axle. My 4WD S4 will trigger the warning light all the time if I put my foot down hard with different aged tyres on the axles. As such I only ever replace all four and then it's just fine.