Active handling warming up?
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Active handling warming up?
I took out the c5z yesterday morning and it was a chilly 32 degrees. I got a message in the DIC about 5 minutes into the drive - "active handling warming up". It went away about 10sec later. Is there a warm up sequence for active handling?? Love learning these neat "quirks".
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Yes, this is normal. Often, this will happen if you make a sharp turn shortly after starting the car. It's nothing to worry about.
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I have had the same thing happen to me this fall. I recall reading somewhere it's a normal thing. I would love to know what temp it need to reach for normal operation just because.
I got my C5 at the end of August and also love learning all neat things about the car.
I got my C5 at the end of August and also love learning all neat things about the car.
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We have about a 900 ft driveway that has some bumps in it, therefore the car doesn't go over maybe 10 mph until I get to the road. The warming up light comes on more often than not no matter what the temp, but goes out after I speed up to 20 mph or so, which leads me to believe it may be a speed/distance thing rather than temp, but I can't say for sure. .
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It's speed/distance related. I looked it up once and if i remember right it wants to see ~50 ft of travel without steering wheel movement or something like that.
Normal thing.
Normal thing.
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Perfectly normal for the system to do this on occasion.
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We have about a 900 ft driveway that has some bumps in it, therefore the car doesn't go over maybe 10 mph until I get to the road. The warming up light comes on more often than not no matter what the temp, but goes out after I speed up to 20 mph or so, which leads me to believe it may be a speed/distance thing rather than temp, but I can't say for sure. .