Thread: TRACTION CONTROL NOISE?

Originally Posted by Loubrey

Naks,

I've done my bit of sand and dune driving all the way up the Skeleton and the Namib, courtesy of the previous regime and membership with the LROCSA.

The dunes north of Perth offer a very different environment being heavily trafficed with a lot of surface disturbance by drivers of inferiors. The fact remains that the moment a wheel kicks, the TC applies the brakes, thus breaking your momentum. Remove the ABS fuse and your back to 300Tdi configuration and the 90 is unstoppable. It does however record a failure/fault every time you do it.

After a year and a half of owning my Puma 90 my only criticism is the lack of a TC on/off switch.

I soldered a fused link and switch to my other halfs TD5 90 to turn the tc off for sand work, just file through the fuse top to the contacts, blow it out out but not in of the vehicle obviosly , solder a fused switched link in and all done and its fantastic. Easy done and works a treat. Its a modification I will do the day the warranty run out on the Puma.

Allan

Tieds, did you have any luck finding out what was causing this? I have the same thing happen regularly in my '10 Defender 90. I can't keep track on how many times it's been to the dealer. Some days it'll be fine, others it will go off everytime you take off from a standstill. It does seem to do it more when it's warm or the car been running for 15-20mins

My traction control makes noises sometimes when taking off (when not off road).

The pedals feels springy?, and I can feel the brakes being transferred to different wheels?

I would not describe the noise as gears grinding though.

The noise is the same as I hear when going up a slippery slope off road, when the TC light comes on.

I had the TC noise going off when taking off from standstill to & someone on this forum suggested tapping the sensors home with a small hammer, the two front ones are on top of the swivel pins & the rear ones on the front of the axle.
A few slight taps on each and the problem is gone !!!