Hyundai i30 (2007 - ) - ESP

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Tue 15 Apr 2008 19:29
ESP - bintang
How does ESP work please? My handbook isn't clear on the point. Does keeping it permanently engaged affect fuel consumption?
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Tue 15 Apr 2008 19:38
ESP - Optimist
I'm not a techie but I'll have a go and happy to be corrected.

As I understand it. ESP monitors various things the car is up to: braking, acceleration, steering wheel angle, accelerator pedal depression. If there is something suden on any of these, because you brake or swerve fiercely or lose grip on a driven wheel, ESP intervenes to restore the situation to "normal".

If I'm right it will only operate when it has to and so I don't think there will be any overall effect on mpg. I think systems can be turned off so the car won't intervene when you're deliberately trying to go side-ways at 85 mph.
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Tue 15 Apr 2008 19:42
ESP - Pugugly
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_stability_control


I think that says more or less everything you're likely to want to know. I wouldn't worry about the fuel thing.
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Tue 15 Apr 2008 19:48
ESP - bintang
Phew! Thanks for the lead.
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Tue 15 Apr 2008 20:15
ESP - Dynamic Dave
Some more info:-

www.thatcham.org/esc/index.jsp?page=239
www.thatcham.org/esc/index.jsp?page=240
www.thatcham.org/esc/index.jsp?page=296
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Real MPG enables you to register the fuel economy you are actually getting against your make and model of car, its engine and type of transmission.

Every time you enter an average consumption figure against your car, the overall average automatically adjusts to reflect it.

Real MPG