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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 04:54 PM
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Okay, so just today something weird happened as I was driving. I got off 237 and was turning on the offramp. I wasn't driving fast at all. All of a sudden I heard something weird in the rear of my car. I kinda felt a very faint bumping going on and then the VSA warning light was flickering off and on. As soon as I got out of the turn and went straight, everything was fine.

Any idea what happened here?
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 05:02 PM
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car hopped?
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 05:03 PM
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car hopped?
No. I just felt a very faint bumping in the rear. It was kinda weird.
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 05:11 PM
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kicked up a rock which caused your tire to break loose?
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 05:23 PM
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kicked up a rock which caused your tire to break loose?
Nope nothing like that.
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 05:33 PM
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ok... then if you know why it did that then why ask?
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 07:10 PM
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VSA kicked in yo!!! That is all....
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 08:48 PM
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if you break traction (feeling of bump) vsa will kick it and blink to notify you that it did it's job.. i spun out once and the vsa was blinking like crazy
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Was this effect different than any time VSA has blinked for you during times that you know you lost traction, and would have predicted it to turn on?
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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by eklipz98
Was this effect different than any time VSA has blinked for you during times that you know you lost traction, and would have predicted it to turn on?
Well, it has happened a while ago. Like I said, I wasn't driving fast and exiting on an offramp that goes in a circle. Half way into the turn the VSA kicked in for like maybe 5 seconds. Just that weird bump noise got me a bit scared cause I thought something bad was gonna happen with the LSD.

So maybe my car did slightly lose traction and I just didn't notice.
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