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Originally Posted by stugray
I experimented last night in the rain.
With the 3 sec hold on the button, (both dash lights lit), I could not get the dash lights to even blink when getting it sideways.
Maybe the snow can confuse the systems enough to think that a wheel has lifted (like your example), but under 95% of driving cases the system manages it just fine.
I am positive I can get it to do it again but I'll have to wait for winter to come around....
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If it's a lifting wheel that causes it, then that would explain why it's only happened to me on the snow. During my ice racing runs, I was moving relatively slowly, at quite a sideways angle, and with a LOT of wheelspin, so it's entirely possible that the car mistook all that free-wheeling for a tire in the air. In any event, the slip light WILL come on and blink furiously even after holding the TCS button for 3 seconds, if you're hooning the car hard enough.