Have any of you had a little fun with your car (spinning the tires and whatnot) and have the slip light come on but not turn off? I was playing around in an empty parking lot (with VDC off) and afterwards my Slip light and VDC off lights stayed on even when I pushed on the VDC Off button. I had to turn the engine off and back on again to clear the lights. Does anyone know why this is?

 

I was just looking at the owner's manual last night and it says something about what that means, but I can't remember right now.

 

I just looked in the owner's manual again. This means there is a malfunction in the system and that the traction control function is canceled. I guess it reset itself when you restarted the car.

 

thius also happens when u need new brakes

 

Thanks for checking the manual for me kepp. I should have read that to begin with. I can't imagine it would be my brakes, since I only have 2100 miles on my car. I wonder why it does that though.

 

it has happened to me too whenever i do donuts and such, clears whenever i shut off the car tho, shouldnt be a problem

 

true - or - check your brake fluid levels, if they are too low, you will experience the same symptoms.

 

yea thats happened to me when i was doing donuts just did what u did turn it off then on, have no problems

 

First time I experience this yesterday in our canyon run. A lot of wheel spin or sliding will cause the VDC and SLIP light to come on. Simple fix is to turn off the engine to reset the system. They said that this was common in the 03 and early 04 models I guess they haven't found a fix for it yet. In fact my system mulfunctioned twice during the run. I found it more fun to drive the car with the VDC off while going through the mountain twisties. I'm thinking of bringing it back to the dealer this weekend just to make sure everything is normal.

 

This happened to me. My nav also reported low brake fluid. Took it to the dealer and they told me I needed new brake pads.

Once the changed them (for free) my car was happy again.

 

For some reason the spinning and jacking around confuses the computer and it defaults to VDC/slip lights on.
Nothing to worry about since it resets on restarting.
C.

 

I was in Manual Mode yesterday and I floored it in first when I switched to 2nd the SLIP light came on and I had to wait and reshift after 2 seconds wtf?