redbullgotwings

okay guys i have a 2001 audi A6 2.7t. This is my first Audi with ESP. i went to go shut it off today and the button didnt do anything physically, it pressed in and then popped right back out. I would have thought a light would have came on or the button would have stayed indented a little bit, but nothing physically changed about the appearance of the button. The roads were dry so i didnt wanna try and test it.


So should the ESP button give me some sign that it is on or off? Or do i just trust that when i press it, its off.

Yar1

A light should come on in the cluster to tell you that it is off... the button is a single click, it wont change physically at all. If ESP is on and your wheels start to spin freely, the light will also blink to tell you that it is working.

2.7Lturbo

.... just stupid

GTA_Driver

You should see a triangle in a circle with an exclamation mark in the instrument cluster when ESP is off. When ESP is on, you should not see it. It is inside the tachometer.

redbullgotwings

and there it is.
lol ya im dumb. i didnt even think to look on the dash i was looking for the esp button itself to do something.

ya my esp is fine im just a dumb ***

thanks for the help guys lol im glad i can make an *** of myself in front of you guys instead of in front of my mechanic

2.7Lturbo

thats what we're here for


no worries, its stupid that they even have a button. other then showing off, i cant think of any time i would ever have to turn off esp...

GTA_Driver

In the snow, and at the track. I thank them for having te button to turn it off. Unlike the new Jetta which you can't do anything about and it must suck in the winter.

2.7Lturbo

i understand at the track, but honestly i dont think you need a button for that,

why would you want to disable it in the snow though?




you can disable the new jetta in the ECU via vag com i believe

redbullgotwings

ya i believe you can turn the esp off in the new jetta's via VCDS

but i turn off ESP every time i drive. IMO i think its stupid that they have it. I had a 99 and there wasnt any ESP at all, thats the way it should be.

you turn ESP off in the snow because you dont want the car to cut off power when you are sliding in an AWD. you want to power out of the slide. hit the gas and turn the wheel and you will pull right out of it, but with the ESP on you will just slide off the road.

Also SNOW DRIFTING!!!!

jcman

I have it on my 04 and my impression was that you turn it off if your stuck and need traction only, I never turned it off on a snow covered road or really at all without any traction or drift problems other then one time in a snow covered parking lot doing the old crazy-8's yee haw thing to stop the rpm limiting and the flashing dash light.

ESP just sense's the yaw rate to peck at that corner and will enact EDL in a different way outside of primitive straight-line traction control systems.