Reading about ESP yesterday and wondered what people's experiences are of when the light comes on and how the car responds.
Is it an advantage to have ESP?
Have a good day, all.
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Just the once. There is a road that has a very sharp 90 degree bend and then goes over a hump back bridge. As you approach the bend you can't see if the bridge is clear until the last second. The road was quite damp and when I saw the bridge was clear I did the turn and hit the gas. I felt the backend start to go, the ESP light came on, and then the rearend just came into line and that was that.
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Oh Yes !
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Never seen mine come on in 10 years of cars having it!
Probably says something about my driving style.
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Yup on just about every car I've driven with it.
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Oh yes!
Rather annoyingly, mine also beeps if the rear starts to slide. This seems pointless as:
if the slide is deliberate, the beep is unecessary
if an accident is in progress, the beep just increases the panic.
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Yes, all the time, usually when accelerating over wet manhole covers etc. Have had it correct the back end a few times on roundabouts. Works nicely.
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It came on tonight in the garden at the BBQ
Extra Sausages please!
Couldnotresistsorry MD
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extra sensory perception?? - I have ABS and TC - whats ESP - seems my car is too old
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I was brought up on cars which were not fitted with anything which needed fashionable initials to identify it. However, I do come fitted with eyes, ears, feet, hands and what remains of a brain. Strangely, I find that if these are deployed in some semblance of order that full control of a vehicle can be maintained even in quite extreme situations.
Does that mean that I have E.E.F.H.B. and if so any suggestions as to where I could have a warning light or buzzer fitted ?
:)
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Have had it correct the back end a few times on roundabouts.
I thought the point of ESP was to do the correcting for you?
I had TC and ESP on my previous Vectra-C, but for reasons only known to Vauxhall they dropped it as standard fit on the facelift Vectra.
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I have to admit to the occasional disconnection of as many electronic aids as I could - especially in the damp !
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Every time I read comments like these in reviews and the like, I wonder what situation would cause the ESP light to come on at a time when the driver would be looking at the instrument panel to see it. Wouldn't the driver's eyes be fully on the road in the kind of situation that might bring ESP into play?
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i prefer if im going to have something on a car that makes a light go on and off that it also has a switch that i can turn on and off so i know its working, to much in todays mordern cars requires a leap of faith that it will work when it needs to.
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>> Have had it correct the back end a few times on roundabouts. I thought the point of ESP was to do the correcting for you?
Which is what I said..
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Which is what I said..
Yes, apologies Michael. Misread what you wrote. In too much of a hurry as per usual.
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Yes, towing the caravan up a sodden field. I seemed to manage at a brisk tickover in non-optional 2-wheel-drive whereas others in 4x4s seemed to be making a great noisy meal of it and leaving muddy tracks everywhere. Never on the road though.
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I sometimes have to go around a sharp uphill bend that has a poor road surface. I switch ESP off when aproaching the corner 'cos car goes round better without it coming on.
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My ESP light came on and stayed on, along with the ABS light.
I booked it into my local Subaru dealer and braced for impact....total cost £4.12 for two brake bulbs which by going simultaneously had disabled these functions and cruise as well apparently.
No charge for labour to diagnose and fit the bulbs either - hats off to Robinsons of Rochdale.
Worth remembering.
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Eee espee??
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In defence of ESP, I have to say that this and other electronic wizardry tamed the big engined Beemers and changed them into a car that anyone could drive, I can't tell you how much pleasure - real pleasure - I've had out of these cars over the years and that pleasure has never been diluted by ESP, DSC etc. etc.
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I would not expect, or want, to see the light on.
It means I would be driving too close to the limit. Whilst this is OK on the track it is not something ANYONE should do on a public road.
How will you feel on the day when it fails (and one day it will) and you kill someone!
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"It means I would be driving too close to the limit."
Not so at all. It doesn't take any effort to lose the back end of a RWD car with 200 horses coming off a damp mini roundabout at low speed.
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I wish a car I had was constucted with an E.S.P light. The problem of course in my case no E.S.P equaled no car when I came to a damp bend.
Skids will only happen if the car is driven past it limits, and it does not take a powerfull car to do that. My former car was a 60 HP mark 1 clio and it suffered from snap off oversteer.
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I haven't spotted it, but felt the ESP working twice in 3300 miles.
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