traction on or off? is this guy right?

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MRVAPER1
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traction on or off? is this guy right?

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watched this the other day, do we agree or disagree with the dude in the video? ???
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Vn4i9b97Y
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This YouTube guy is a rambling buffoon. I would try and completely forget this nonsense. "Killing the ignition"?
He doesn't know the difference between traction control and active handling management or stability control on less sophisticated vehicles. 
 
His expertise in on Kia and I'm not even sure he knows how that system works. The only time you would want to shut this off in your H3 is when you were seriously offroad or stuck in the snow somewhere. Our 2010 Alpha had all the traction control, stabilitrak, and electronic lockers but we never took it offroad. I do know the traction control was never shut off once in the years we had the truck. Frankly, it worked really good and we never found it intrusive. The guy who bought that thing after it was traded got a good truck that had never been offroad. Wifes daily driver. Sorry I digress...
You can disable it in H-Lock by holding the button if I remember right and it is automatically disengaged in L-Lock.
 
I would survive about 10 minutes in my Z06 if I shut this stuff off on dry asphalt and I never found the system intrusive in my H1, H2, or H3.
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Re: traction on or off? is this guy right?

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THOUGHT SO, make no sense to me either. last car was a caddy cts and in slippy conditions backend would do i guess kinda the old "posi-traction"  thing (rear wheel drive) and powered through pretty much any thing. thanks for getting back to the post.
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Re: traction on or off? is this guy right?

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saved me from a slide off the road on an icy day in the country, was driving beside a lake, and it was a very curvy road,, at one point , even if i was not going fast + - 35 kph,, while taking a curb to the left,, the H3 started to slide and was going to end up on the side or worst on the top,in the lake, i just release the gas a tad,, and traction control started to do its work,, preventing me to slide sideways,, and put the H back on the track to continue my curve to the next one. 
 
 you can imagine how happy i could have been.. so winter,, its always on, well,, its always on year long.
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