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R50/53 DSC Light, help me understand

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Old 01-30-2008, 07:52 PM
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DSC Light, help me understand

SO I got my snows on today (nokian Hak5's), and went for a drive. It's been snowing for the past 2 days, so I figured I'd turn on the DSC.

I clicked the DSC button, and the DSC light turned on and stayed lit (which I thought was normal, and meant it was activated).

Sometimes it would flash, and then go off.

So I activated it again with the toggle.

Now I seem to understand that the light should not be constantly lit.

How should the DSC lighting work?


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DSC is always active, until you turn it off with the toggle.

Solid light - DSC disabled.

Flashing light - DSC is active.

Its not hard to tell when its working. Leave it on and go wide open down a snowy road. DSC prevents wheel spin by cutting throttle, you can feel it.
 
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OK, so if the light is solid, it's warning you that it's OFF.

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Yes. either you disabled it with the switch, or there is a problem in the system and the ECM disabled it itself. When you overboost the ECM will disable the DSC by itself also.
 
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