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Tire Spin on a D Models?
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Sosius
a.k.a. Uptown Frunk
You might get some spin if you turn off traction control. Maybe I will go out and try it and report back.
UPDATE: did not work. I mistakenly confused the Slip Start feature in my mind with a (nonexistent) option to turn off traction control. If someone has a workaround, I would like to know about it!
UPDATE: did not work. I mistakenly confused the Slip Start feature in my mind with a (nonexistent) option to turn off traction control. If someone has a workaround, I would like to know about it!
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SmartElectric
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The traction control stops any tirespin. Unfortunately.
What really is a bummer is that around corners the traction control is *really* constraining. You can floor it at the apex and literally feel the constricted power. It feels like a Fiat. Then, as the car straightens out the power comes back on. Not a great corner exit experience and I hope they put a real traction control disable option in.
What really is a bummer is that around corners the traction control is *really* constraining. You can floor it at the apex and literally feel the constricted power. It feels like a Fiat. Then, as the car straightens out the power comes back on. Not a great corner exit experience and I hope they put a real traction control disable option in.
Is that also true for the new D models? If so, I might hook up a switch to that fuse and put it under the steering console!
+1
This drove me crazy at ReFUEL. This was better in the P85 than in the P85D because you could turn it off on the P85.
And for the record, it's such a powerful impact that I literally had plenty of time to look down at the speedometer to confirm that the acceleration limiter was not the cause. I verified this multiple times.
Road and Track couldn't figure out how to do it - and couldn't convince Tesla to disable it for them for the snow/ice course. The article is still a great read, with nice imagery:
Climate Change: 2014 Tesla Model S P85D
Walter
Andyw2100
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If I'm remembering what I've read here correctly, while disabling traction control used to be possible by pulling a fuse, at some point in the fairly recent past, Tesla changed that.
Edit: Excerpted from the article referenced above:
"Other participants walk over to share the moment. Two of them own Teslas but didn't bring them. They'd read Internet posts from other Lime Rock Winter Autocrossers who'd come the week before, only to find that a recent software "upgrade" removed the stability-control defeat procedure."
Edit: Excerpted from the article referenced above:
"Other participants walk over to share the moment. Two of them own Teslas but didn't bring them. They'd read Internet posts from other Lime Rock Winter Autocrossers who'd come the week before, only to find that a recent software "upgrade" removed the stability-control defeat procedure."
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The video I just posted of that P85 has an open diff and it's not spinning one wheel.
gvands
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A few days ago I had a couple of times where the tires spinned a little bit (they also made the squeaky sound) when doing a launch (did not stomp the pedal)
If it's normally not possible to do this, does this mean I need to bring my car in to have it checked? (it was a nice and dry day)
If it's normally not possible to do this, does this mean I need to bring my car in to have it checked? (it was a nice and dry day)
Cottonwood
Roadster#433, Model S#S37
The P85D will slip all four tires for a moment or two. I turned on "slip start" with the car in a parking lot covered in packed powder snow, then punched the accelerator from a standing start. I got out of the car and looked at the results in the snow. There were four nice little craters where the four snow tires had dug into the packed powder snow, at least momentarily.
Slip mode automatically disables at a certain speed. It's in the manual, but I think it's 15mph.
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