Pootling gentling along at a roundabout, slightly greasy on exit, and a little exuberance with the accelerator prompted a substantial tail out attitude.
So far so good as I let out the obligatory “WHEEEEEEEEE!”
However, once I had done the opposite lock bit, DSC suddenly realised that something is wrong, and turns what was a fairly graceful drift into something much more unstable and twitchy, as I tried to figure out WTF was going on.
Is it supposed to do that, and if so, how is that stable? I learned to drive before all this electronic nanny minding, and if this what it entails, I shall have to figure out how to work the off switch properly.
Hmm, are you sure it was working? Are the tyres a good grippy matched set, all with the correct pressures? Is the wheel alignment correct? Are the ABS sensors all working correctly, no warning lights or OBD2 codes?
When I bought my Niseko the light was coming on all the time even with tippy-toe driving, because the six-year-old tyres (with lots of tread) were more like hard bakelite than supple rubber. The DSC was the only thing keeping the car on the road.
I bought new tyres and visited WIM for a four wheel alignment check, and it has only lit once since when flooring it through what I later found out was a large patch of diesel. The Niseko twitched ever so slightly and I though it was the new tyres still on mould-release rubber on a wet patch, but the old type Porsche that had been tail-gating me for the previous ten minutes nearly lost it completely swinging all over the road as a rapidly shrinking dot in my mirror.
The DSC will reduce / cut engine power and apply individual brakes to attemp to correct something it sees as a skid. Much like jumping on and off the throttle yourself it will not turn out to be a graceful drift. With the reductiion of power, application of braking and return of grip can all make it very untidy.
If you hold the DSC button in for a full 8 seconds it should turn the system fully off until the next time you turn the ignition off and on again.
Mine kicks in pretty much as soon as I go near a corner with a decent amount of throttle on! Got new good rear tyres on (fronts may be a bit ropey but not too bad) and an alignment from BBR.
Intriguingly the only OBD code I get is Traction Control Off switch, but the button seems to work! Press it and DSC is off, press it again and its back on, press and hold and the lot is off.
The slide was not the issue for me. I have two less than six month old “ditchfinders” (love that phrase, got it from here somewhere) on the rear, fitted by the dealer I bought the car from, at correct pressure (I check every two weeks at least). I have just never experienced any form of RWD DSC before, and wasn’t sure if what I experienced was … “normal”.
Plan is for proper tyres and a fettle of the suspension setup… next year… when funds allow, so thanks for the info on how to disable the nanny until then.