Asr?
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From: Fuquay Varina North Carolina
Asr?
I assume thats some kind of traction control?..today I goosed the throttle going around a corner on some sandy pavement and the gas pedal pushed my foot just about off of it...is this normal? 
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From: Richmond VA
Yep, that's the ASR working. The little light on the information center will come on too, "ASR Active". I call it "the nanny". I drove with it off for the first time about a month ago. Believe me, its a totally different experience driving with it off.
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From: Slidell Louisiana
Originally Posted by TOO_HOTTVETTE
Auto Slip Regulation or somethig like that. Just a fancy way of GM saying traction control. It will save most from losing it when whipping around a corner
I won't drive on black ice without it!
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Acceleration Slip Regulation, good thing to have though in snow, sometimes you are better off with it off depending on how deep.(and what kind of tires you have and 99% of us don't have proper snow tires)
For normal everyday driving it's best to leave it on. You will hear stories about how someone tried to shoot across an intersection and ASR kicked in and the car bogged and they almost got creamed by the other car, well, I say if you had to accelerate that quickly in the first place, maybe you should have waited until it was clear.
I very rarely have ASR kick in when I'm going in a straight line or from a standstill.
For normal everyday driving it's best to leave it on. You will hear stories about how someone tried to shoot across an intersection and ASR kicked in and the car bogged and they almost got creamed by the other car, well, I say if you had to accelerate that quickly in the first place, maybe you should have waited until it was clear.
I very rarely have ASR kick in when I'm going in a straight line or from a standstill.
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From: Belews Creek north carolina
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Originally Posted by Mr Mojo
Acceleration Slip Regulation, good thing to have though in snow, sometimes you are better off with it off depending on how deep.(and what kind of tires you have and 99% of us don't have proper snow tires)
For normal everyday driving it's best to leave it on. You will hear stories about how someone tried to shoot across an intersection and ASR kicked in and the car bogged and they almost got creamed by the other car, well, I say if you had to accelerate that quickly in the first place, maybe you should have waited until it was clear.
I very rarely have ASR kick in when I'm going in a straight line or from a standstill.
For normal everyday driving it's best to leave it on. You will hear stories about how someone tried to shoot across an intersection and ASR kicked in and the car bogged and they almost got creamed by the other car, well, I say if you had to accelerate that quickly in the first place, maybe you should have waited until it was clear.
I very rarely have ASR kick in when I'm going in a straight line or from a standstill.
aint this oh so true how many times i have heard asr about got me hit when i pulled out in front of someone 
let em go by and then show em how you can blow by them on the straight aways 
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Originally Posted by VinceC4
I assume thats some kind of traction control?..today I goosed the throttle going around a corner on some sandy pavement and the gas pedal pushed my foot just about off of it...is this normal?
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Originally Posted by Mr Mojo
Acceleration Slip Regulation, good thing to have though in snow, sometimes you are better off with it off depending on how deep.(and what kind of tires you have and 99% of us don't have proper snow tires)
For normal everyday driving it's best to leave it on. You will hear stories about how someone tried to shoot across an intersection and ASR kicked in and the car bogged and they almost got creamed by the other car, well, I say if you had to accelerate that quickly in the first place, maybe you should have waited until it was clear.
I very rarely have ASR kick in when I'm going in a straight line or from a standstill.
For normal everyday driving it's best to leave it on. You will hear stories about how someone tried to shoot across an intersection and ASR kicked in and the car bogged and they almost got creamed by the other car, well, I say if you had to accelerate that quickly in the first place, maybe you should have waited until it was clear.
I very rarely have ASR kick in when I'm going in a straight line or from a standstill.
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Originally Posted by Mr Mojo
I say if you had to accelerate that quickly in the first place, maybe you should have waited until it was clear.
I know I'd be dead today had I been t-boned by the delivery truck who ran a traffic light one foggy morning. The only reason I am alive is that my traction control was off and fast throttle movement allowed me to slide the rear of the car out of the way.
The best advice that can be given is to drive it in the way YOU are the most comfortable with it. IMHO the traction control has caused me more problems than it has ever solved.
This is one of those things that people will argue about forever, the good part is that nobody is right, nobody is wrong. Just do with it what YOU want to do.
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From: SCMR Rat Pack'r Charter Member..Great Bend KS
Originally Posted by hip_about_time
I have found I have to be actin pretty crazy to get it to kick in
I agree. The only time mine has ever kicked in is when I deliberately tried to make it activate.
Do most of you guys experience tire spin every time you drive??
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Acceleration Slip Regulator (ASR) is traction control. Kinda' neat the way it growls back at you and lights up the DIC, huh?
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From: Stamping Ground KY
Huh, ASR on my car kicks in way too early, perhaps it vaires from year to year and car to car? I can't take a tight corner without the "dummy" light coming on. I'll turn it off for an autocross, if I want to play, of if it annoys me; but for the most part I leave it on. It does work well in the rain too, and it may have saved me from ending up in a ditch off a country road.
