WHILE TURNING A CORNER AT AN INTERSECTION IN D POSITION, SUDDENLY THERE WAS NO POWER TO THE WHEELS WHILE PRESSING GAS PEDAL, ABS, VSC AND TRAC AND CEL LIGHTS CAME ON. THIS COULD HAVE RESULTED IN AN ACCIDENT, HAD THERE BEEN MORE TRAFFIC. AFTER PULLING TO THE SHOULDER WITH REMAINING SPEED OF VEHICLE, TURNED INTO P, THEN BACK INTO D, VEHICLE JERKED FORWARD WITH CRUNCHING NOISE WHILE PRESSING BRAKES FIRMLY! SHUT OFF VEHICLE, RESTARTED, THEN DROVE OK, BUT ABOVE MENTIONED LIGHTS STAYED ON FOR A AN HOUR. LATER THAT EVENING, THE WARNING LIGHTS TURNED BACK OFF TO NORMAL. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THAT WE HAD A SIMILAR INCIDENT INVOLVING LOSS OF POWER IN COMBINATION WITH VSC TRAC AND CEL WARNING LIGHTS IMMEDIATELY AFTER. *TR
2002
ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL
THE VSC/TRAC ACTIVATION AND SYSTEM WARNING LIGHTS CAME ON WHILE THE SYSTEM INTERMITTENTLY ACTIVATED, LOCKING UP/LETTING GO OF THE RIGHT REAR TIRE WHILE ON DRY LEVEL PAVEMENT AND DRIVING FORWARD. I TOOK IT TO A SHOP, WHICH FOUND A PROBLEM IN A STEERING SENSOR, "THE COMPUTER" AND POSSIBLY A WHEEL SENSOR. THEY SUGGESTED THAT THE SYSTEM BE DISABLED UNTIL IT COULD BE TROUBLESHOOT IN MORE DETAIL. I HAD THEM DISABLE IT SO THAT IT COULD BE DRIVEN WITHOUT THE DANGER OF A WHEEL LOCKING UP ON THE HIGHWAY. IT IS STILL DISABLED, WITH DASH SYSTEM WARNING LIGHTS ON DURING OPERATION. *TR