Thread: Traction Control Issues in a 2010 Defender Puma

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

Anti stall was sending you down the hill??

In mine it only "anti-stalls" to idle or just above. In low range going down hill (reverse) it only throttles to idle or so... So reversing down the hill you hear the engine just after key start and then everything goes quiet until it thinks the revs are getting below idle.

I thought all these systems were pretty much the same on the td5/puma but seems not...

I tested it a couple of times before disconnecting the plug, all has been good for the past 5yrs since I did it

Originally Posted by Robmacca

Guys... Just after some helpful info on the Traction Control in a 2010 Defender Puma...


I recently completed travelling the Canning Stock Route in Western Australia & I experienced some frustrations with Traction Control activating when driving over some brutal Corrugations. I could feel the traction control apply the brakes to the RHS front wheels which became annoying. I tried the method of pressing the brake a number of times before starting the engine but even though it looked like it worked via the lights on the dash, it didn't...


Is there another way of turning OFF the Traction Control? When travelling over the corrugations at 20-40kph, it became annoying and unsafe at time...


Suggestions?


Is it a matter of pulling the fuses?


thanks in advance

yes there is and also bypassing the reduction in power to the drive train when you select low range from 100% to 69% that LR dont tell you about but apparently is designed to "save: the drive train but was Ok on older models?? ... left me stuck halfway up a very step shingle slope because I couldnt acclerate fast enough around a corner before getting onto the uphill shingle slide, the "unoffical" land rover agent did it for me (as a friend) and i could turn off traction control and or also choose whenter to still get full power in low range