ESP issues

[Ritch_182]

Hi All,

I hit something very slippy today and the car ended up sliding left and when i went to correct the slide the car continued to skid for a while before getting my grip back. I always leave my esp on and considering i gave the car quite allot of opposit lock I was surprised/worried that my esp did not seem to kick in, has anyone experienced their esp kick in when getting into a skid/slide?

I would have expected the esp to respond? Anyone got any comments/thought, are Renault able to test if the esp is working as it should?
I did not see the orange esp light flicker of anything?

Any comments (sensible) welcomed? I am sorry if i make no sense at all

Rich

 

[Evil Ally]

Yep, I was caning it off a roundabout once and hit a greasy spot. The back started to come round and I saw the ESP light flicker and the car straightened itself out. Magic. Maybe you should go to an empty car park for some "testing"

 

[stuartp44]

lol good testing idea that evil_ally just watch the bollards, i have a freind who reversed his laguna right into a bollard when he was messing about on a carpark LOL

 

[tommyboy]

lol good testing idea that evil_ally just watch the bollards, i have a freind who reversed his laguna right into a bollard when he was messing about on a carpark LOL

not surprised, Laguna's resemble a large cruise liner.. :dead:

 

[GordonD]

Hi All,

I hit something very slippy today and the car ended up sliding left and when i went to correct the slide the car continued to skid for a while before getting my grip back. I always leave my esp on and considering i gave the car quite allot of opposit lock I was surprised/worried that my esp did not seem to kick in, has anyone experienced their esp kick in when getting into a skid/slide?

I would have expected the esp to respond? Anyone got any comments/thought, are Renault able to test if the esp is working as it should?
I did not see the orange esp light flicker of anything?

Any comments (sensible) welcomed? I am sorry if i make no sense at all

Rich

Its a matter of what the ESP has sensors to detect and is programmed to deal with.

You refer to the car "sliding". By that I presume you mean the car was going in a straight line, but wasn't pointing in the direction it was going. The ESP's not looking for that. Its looking for it rotating. And its looking for differences in wheel speeds. In a slide neither of those are occuring.

 

[Fred@BTM]

i'll never forget the time when the esp threw me off the circuit at brands hatch

inside wheel off the deck causes it to go mad, f**king thing