someone please help...... active handling?
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someone please help...... active handling?
i recently bought my first vette 2001 c5 and im still figuring out its tricks
there is a button on my center console active handling when i push it to my knowledge disables the handling system and and traction control? what is the lever next to it? it says ride control then there are 3 options tour sport and performance. what is that? then to top it off and add more confusion to me i held the active handling/traction control button down for a few seconds and it tells me competitive driving......what is that? can someone that has experience or knowledge in this please help me 
there is a button on my center console active handling when i push it to my knowledge disables the handling system and and traction control? what is the lever next to it? it says ride control then there are 3 options tour sport and performance. what is that? then to top it off and add more confusion to me i held the active handling/traction control button down for a few seconds and it tells me competitive driving......what is that? can someone that has experience or knowledge in this please help me
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First of all - let me say welcome to the forum and the world of Corvette ownership. Secondly, let me just say that the owner's manual is your friend and all of your questions will be answered there. Third, failing having a manual, there are manuals that can be found on line such as this one....http://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/...01corvette.pdf Fourth - search is your friend on this site.
Finally - in deference to your lack of knowledge and experience, lets take your questions one at a time....
1. There is a button on my center console active handling when i push it to my knowledge disables the handling system and and traction control?
Your car is equipped with traction control and active handling. Traction control is meant to limit wheel spin by the back tires. It will apply brake and cut timing if it is detected that the rear wheels are spinning faster than the fronts. Each wheel has a wheel speed sensor and the information is fed to the computer. If you press it down once it will disable the whole system and it will indicate that with an amber light on the speedometer which looks like a Corvette with tire tracks behind it. It will also come on up your Driver Information Center stating Traction Control & Active Handling Disabled.
If you press the button and hold it down for a few seconds, it will put the car into Competitive Driving mode, and will say that on the DIC. This means that you have turned off traction control and left Active Handling engaged. Active Handling employs yaw sensors and keeps the car from spinning out by applying brake to the opposite front wheel.
Active Handling will not offset the physics, and what I mean by that is if you get on slick pavement, you have to use common sense. It will not save you.
The other button is the ride control - known as F45 Selective Real Time Dampening. By changing the position of the switch, you are altering the rebound dampeners (shocks) and making them stiffer or softer. Obviously Performance is the stiffest, followed by Sport and Touring is the softest.
These two systems have nothing to do with each other.
I hope this helps, but do your self a favor and familiarize yourself with the owner's manual. Good luck and miles and miles of smiles!
Finally - in deference to your lack of knowledge and experience, lets take your questions one at a time....
1. There is a button on my center console active handling when i push it to my knowledge disables the handling system and and traction control?
Your car is equipped with traction control and active handling. Traction control is meant to limit wheel spin by the back tires. It will apply brake and cut timing if it is detected that the rear wheels are spinning faster than the fronts. Each wheel has a wheel speed sensor and the information is fed to the computer. If you press it down once it will disable the whole system and it will indicate that with an amber light on the speedometer which looks like a Corvette with tire tracks behind it. It will also come on up your Driver Information Center stating Traction Control & Active Handling Disabled.
If you press the button and hold it down for a few seconds, it will put the car into Competitive Driving mode, and will say that on the DIC. This means that you have turned off traction control and left Active Handling engaged. Active Handling employs yaw sensors and keeps the car from spinning out by applying brake to the opposite front wheel.
Active Handling will not offset the physics, and what I mean by that is if you get on slick pavement, you have to use common sense. It will not save you.
The other button is the ride control - known as F45 Selective Real Time Dampening. By changing the position of the switch, you are altering the rebound dampeners (shocks) and making them stiffer or softer. Obviously Performance is the stiffest, followed by Sport and Touring is the softest.
These two systems have nothing to do with each other.
I hope this helps, but do your self a favor and familiarize yourself with the owner's manual. Good luck and miles and miles of smiles!
