Why Does The Service Traction Control Come On & How TO Fix It?
All the tires on a vehicle have a tread design to help them grip the road. As you drive, each wheel turns at a different speed and this causes the tire to spin around its axis. When you have all four wheels spinning at different speeds it can be difficult for your car to maintain traction on slippery surfaces as well as straight roads. This is where service traction control comes in handy. In rainy weather, this device will automatically increase pressure in the front wheels to prevent wheel spin and allow you to still make progress along rain-slick streets.
Service Traction Control is an automated system that monitors wheel speed and applies a brake or releases a brake as needed to assist with traction during acceleration or braking.
What is Service Stabilitrak?
Stabilitrak is a car stability control system that helps keep your vehicle on the road. Your car’s electronic stability control (ESC) system compares steering inputs and speed with the vehicle’s motion and uses braking and engine power to adjust for any differences. These adjustments help you maintain control of your vehicle during emergency maneuvers like swerving or stopping suddenly.
Service Stabilitrak usually includes:
- Checking the system’s sensors, wiring, and computer software.
- Taking care of any fluid leaks, such as brake fluid or coolant.
- Inspecting other parts like tires, brakes, and suspension parts.
Learn more about Service Stabilitrak repair costs.
What is the service traction control?
Before we get to why the traction control light appears, let’s take a look at what it really means. Your car uses a service traction control system to help you maintain your vehicle’s performance even in slippery conditions. Without the use of this system, it would be difficult to drive on snow or ice.
Service traction control is designed to control how much power is being delivered to the wheels. It does this by reducing engine torque to certain engines, limiting wheel spin, and applying brakes to individual wheels. This will help keep your vehicle moving smoothly over slippery roads, regardless of the weather. The result is better handling and safety for you and everyone on the road with you.
Why does the service traction control come on?
What exactly is the problem of service traction control coming on? Does it have anything to do with your car at all? Although many cars on the market today have some sort of monitoring of your vehicle’s overall traction control system, only a few automakers actually make a great effort to make this information available to the driver. If your car is equipped with service traction control, it means that the traction control system has detected that your car is traveling too fast for road conditions and that it is preventing you from losing control. In this case, the traction control system is indicating that your car has lost traction (or is turning) and that the service traction control system is suggesting that the driver take back control of the vehicle by engaging traction control.
How to fix the service traction control?
- Remove your vehicle’s traction control.
- Remove the codes from the gauge. These are letters and numbers that you need to remove to obtain the service code.
- Remove the battery. If you want to go the manual route, you can purchase this video guide here to help. However, this isn’t an ideal solution as you’ll have to do most of the work.
- Inspect the power steering. Sometimes you can pull up on the power steering rack itself to free the codes.
Here’s how to find the service codes on the engine:
From the control panel, first, turn the fan control all the way to the off position. You should see an icon in the top right-hand corner on your dash. This is the engine speed indicator. It shows the engine speed when it is turned on and off.
Conclusion
I hope this article helped you understand what service traction control is. Most likely you didn’t know there were different kinds of traction control or that there are various warning lights associated with it. I will make sure to update this page with more information that will help you understand more about what can be learned about your vehicle.
