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Turn traction control off?

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#1 ·
Not found any info on this yet. Anybody know how to do it? A45 and non-A45 vehicles?

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#17 ·
Nice dry day...and I thought I'd have a spin on my A200 with traction control off for the first time. I noticed 2 things. With traction control off, the rev limiter deactivates so you can rev to red line at stationery point! Also, launching the car at around 5k rev gets my car 0-60 to 7 seconds! A second faster than what's on paper (8 seconds). Looks like I'm gonna turn off my ESP from now on. Might need to invest in some new tyres soon though!
 
#20 ·
As far as I know, when someone deactivates the ESP from the setting menu, same is not fully deactivated but partially only.

However there is a 'secret' menu, so you have to press at the same time the 'call' button on the right side of the steeing wheel and the 'OK' button on the left side.


Then you enter into a engineering menu, where among other info, you can see an option of 'rolling'. This option actually is supposed to be activated while car on dyno and in my understanding it actually deactivates ESP 100%.


If someone tries above please let us know if works and relevant experience gained.