Traction Control not working like it should?

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I thought TC was suppose to limit me to 2k RPMs when it goes active? I can rev up to at least 6K RPM...Why is that?

I have an '06

[MarineHawk]

I thought TC was suppose to limit me to 2k RPMs when it goes active? I can rev up to at least 6K RPM...Why is that?

I have an '06

are you covering your break when you do that?

[dochummer]

I can easily go over 2krpm with TC being active....

[tomp]

are you covering your break when you do that?


No, just one foot on the gas. The roads are covered in ice, so I got a chance to play with TC some. I am wondering if something might be wrong with it. I thougt something was wrong when I psoted this other thread also: http://www.elcovaforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21326

Any comments on this?

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I just got off the phone with Service at the dealer. He is saying that TC does not even come on until 1500 RPM and there is no RPM limit.

Phil/Paragon, can you help me understand this, as I thought the belief here is that TC limits us to 2K RPM?

[ree]

What I took from that thread was that TCS doesn't directly limit the engine. Rather as it's pulsing your brakes it's eating into any momentum you have built up in forward motion and wheel spin. As you slow down, the drive train has to exert more effort to maintain your speed, hench the bogging down of the engine. I'm speculating that this is what Phil means by "controls throttle response," ... i.e. indirectly through the drive train and not via the computer.

If this is right, then if you are not slowing down because you aren't getting more and more stuck and the TCS doesn't thin kthat wheels are still spinning when they shouldng, there'd be no reason you can't redline the engine.