Interesting video on the Tacoma Traction Control

I stumbled onto this video while surfing around on Youtube. A guy jacks up one then two then three wheels off the ground to demonstrate the traction control.

https://youtu.be/BXYFxXUcdYA

A second video of his:

https://youtu.be/5E8nXcMALi0

 

Niceeeee

 

You should add this to this thread.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...-modes-explained.530695/page-14#post-20494562

 

Did anyone else cringe when the jackstand scraped along the frame, or just me? lol

 

Yes but......

Interesting test.

 

No, it wasn't just you.

 

Did similar but used floor jacks pointed forward and aft so truck could roll a little. Test became the meat of the traction control spreadsheets...

(The thread before the sticky thread https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...s-non-trd-offroad.437814/page-7#post-16935442)

 

It's been like a year since I had my Sport but don't you have to hold the button for a few seconds to completely kill TRAC? I know my OR is that way but I'm 90% certain he just killed the standard engine/brake traction control mode and not the brake-only TRAC. That would exactly explain why it still worked.

Granted, I've seen a similar test on a fully open TJ with the same outcome... I can say for certain that lifting a tire doesn't remove 100% of the torque to the other side when you're revving up like that.

 

I think from my perusal of that traction control forum and the owner's manual, that on TRD off-road/pro models, placing it in low range turns regular traction control off - and requires use of ATS or MTS - but not so in the lesser variants? Would explain why his one front wheel still gripped. Toyota's traction control system is certainly complicated