Traction control on the 16v?

[Mikester]

just off topic for a moment I need a rubber for my beesting base now does it fit over the aerial externaly like stretch it over or do you have to drop the headlinding and undo the aerial?

i reckon drop it, if you stretched it over, it wouldnt fit right as it would be stretched.

[mk3valver]

Cheer's

[Stirring Moose]

Hmm, interesting all this TC talk. My dad and I have had a long running, if good natured, debate over whether my Mk.3 Valver should have it. He says it should and can produce old VW brochures from his days of VR6 ownership to prove it. I can provide practical evidence of its absence! I know my ABS is working, again by practical experiment, but whether the TC part is nadgered or was just never there I don't know.

S.M.

[Mikester]

My 8v has traction control. Its called my right foot. lol.

Think people presume some 2009 ferrari traction control, from a 1993 system! lol

[Paul86S2]

Its a basic system that applies the brakes to the spinning wheel. As Mike says don't expect anything fancy from a 1990's TC system.

It will only work if your abs system works.

Use your right foot with a bit of finnesse (spelling) and you won't need it.

Saying that we were spinning the wheels in first second and third this morning at Keevil airfield in the heavy rain this morning. No finnesse shown with the right foot whatsoever.

Paul

[VW BUSH]

^ Yep, get out of first and second as fast as you can and nail it in 3rd is my technique of choice

So far so good.

Yeah ive seen you go over the flyover, hows it handle over the bumpy curve
Still reckon i could do ya 

[AlanD]

lol you from Croydon aswell? What are you in? I shall keep an eye out.

If you saw a black MK5 booting over the flyover with a GolfGTI.co.uk sticker in the back it wasnt me ok

[Stirring Moose]

^ Yep, get out of first and second as fast as you can and nail it in 3rd is my technique of choice

So far so good.

Interesting. I've always found it better to really wring out second before going for third (not that I do it too often; I do have some respect for the old girl's advancing years!). I don't know if all Mk.3 Valvers had the same set of ratios but mine (M-plate/'95) has a hell of a gap between 2nd and 3rd. I find that, unless she's really humming in 2nd, she's perilously close to dropping off the cam when you hit 3rd. Which can be a bit of an arse clencher under certain circumstances...

S.M.

[Cable]

^ Yep, get out of first and second as fast as you can and nail it in 3rd is my technique of choice

So far so good.

Interesting. I've always found it better to really wring out second before going for third (not that I do it too often; I do have some respect for the old girl's advancing years!). I don't know if all Mk.3 Valvers had the same set of ratios but mine (M-plate/'95) has a hell of a gap between 2nd and 3rd. I find that, unless she's really humming in 2nd, she's perilously close to dropping off the cam when you hit 3rd. Which can be a bit of an arse clencher under certain circumstances...

S.M.

agree

[thai-wronghorse]

Gears?!?!? wtf are those, I just thought i had an extra high pitched engine??   :embarassed: