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Old 01-01-2009, 06:39 PM   #50 (permalink)
wannabfast
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Originally Posted by Phalanx View Post
For what its worth...

I have been able to confirm what GSXRSpeed said about the (!) light and VSA. Thanks to the cold weather my (!) light as come on a few times and I was able to test it yesterday.

Yesterday, I launched my car (in an isolated, empty, parking lot) with the (!) light present and while switching VSA on/off multiple times.

When VSA was enabled, it acted normally in trying to prevent my wheels from spinning.
When VSA was disabled, my tires were allowed ot spin freely until I let off the gas to gain traction.
but thats when you have a tire pressure light and NOT the TPMS light illuminated, the vsa will still function normally with a low pressure situation, but if you have wheels WITHOUT tpms sensors, the system will go into dummy mode and will keep vsa on as it thinks you are now driving WITHOUT wheels...

you can check this by swapping out the wheels with wheels without sensors

at least this is what happened in the 06RL i drove, it had no sensors.. couldnt shut a darn thing off
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