Thread: Traction Control broke my front Diff (I think)

I think that you'll find that even though the diff broke in the sand, the damage or weakening was done somewhere else at some other time. The sand and the ETC was probably just enough of a peak load to actually break it.

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

I agree totally. I've done lots of sand driving and you only see the tc come on very occasionally.

Agree. I had to learn how to drive ETCed Defender, a bit of different compare to earlier model

TC can't be on all the time, it gets overheated and goes off in my experience in about 2 minutes constant work, you see it when TC orange light starts blinking. In your case if its still running, i'd think something wrong with ETC system. Do you have a Nanocom, have you checked errors log?