Traction control on 997 2WD

[chumley-warner]

With wet roads, I'm happy to push on at 50 ish mph round roundabouts with T/C on, but this week I had all four tyres give up in an oversteery way but managed to catch it.

I have had the T/C kick in when it was snowing and it was close to useless as I couldn't move anyway, do I really need to be careful and will me T/C only kick in when I'm doing illegal speeds round fast bends and it's close to useless? (for normal driving)

[damiangt3]

chumley-warner said:

With wet roads, I'm happy to push on at 50 ish mph round roundabouts with T/C on, but this week I had all four tyres give up in an oversteery way but managed to catch it.

I have had the T/C kick in when it was snowing and it was close to useless as I couldn't move anyway, do I really need to be careful and will me T/C only kick in when I'm doing illegal speeds round fast bends and it's close to useless? (for normal driving)

Don't rely on PSM to save you, because it won't! It doesn't defeat the laws of gravity or indeed inertia. No traction, no traction control!

[jackwood]

Sounds like you might benefit from going on some kind of wet handling course so you can "Experiment" with exactly what the PSM can and can't help you with.
PSM is very good at correcting stupid driver inputs or gradual release of traction in most circumstances, but particularly in wet and low grip conditions you can very quickly arrive at a point where the PSM, no matter what it does, cannot regain traction in time to prevent complete loss of control.
When you had your "slide" the PSM would have been working to try and rectify the situation, but like is said above, if there is no traction, there is no control.

Jack