well, i was driving on the freeway and getting ready to exit...at about 60 slowing down...
i had totally forgotten that it had rained earlier and that the ground was slippery...
plus, the other day i went at the same speed and i was fine...
but this time, i guess the car slipped or lost some traction cuz i spun rightward...then i turned the wheel the opposite direction and accelerated...due to the large wall on the right side of the offramp and not wanting to wreck my tl...i took a chance at getting thrown into a 360...
obviously..that's what happened....but i accelerated into the turning and the tcs light was blinking like mad and i got out of it...i haven't checked for damages but with a visual inspection, the car seems fine...
dang...i guess that tcs really does seem to help... i'm just glad there was no one there and nothing bad came from it...just a little fun "joyride" and a silly story :0

 

Well, glad to hear that you not hurt or anything. Because that's something money can't buy!

Just have a question, how fast you were going when the TCS when off? Because my TCS did nothing when my is totally out of controll! I was going at around 90km (around 50 miles) on ramp, and it was wet outside. I wonder why your TCS too action while my did nothing.

 

TCS will only prevent the front wheels from slipping under acceleration at speeds below 25 MPH (if my memory serves me correctly, it's 25MPH). TCS played a small role in saving sammy -- he avoided danger in large part due to the fact that he did the right thing by turning into the skid.

The system is not designed to prevent and/or correct any oversteer/understeer... that's what TCS' big brother VSA is for. In both your cases, TCS worked as it should have.

Glad you're ok.

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I think he turned away from the side which cause the car to do a 360. If he counter steered then his car would have jerked into the same direction (assuming that he got traction) allowing him to gain controlled by steering into the correction direction. I think.

I thought when a cars spuns out of control, you turn the car into the same direction as the spin. (At least, thats what I do for drifting).

In any cause, it's good see that every thing worked out fine.