After the post about the guy totalling his car in the rain I got curious. I know it will be a fairly small sampling, but I'm wondering if the drivers that have it use it. Do you use it all the time, sometimes, or never? If sometimes what conditions dictate its use?
Thanks, Tony

 

What do you mean by "use VSA"? Do you mean "leave it on"? If so you'd be a fool to disable the system on public roads.

If you mean "actually trigger the use of VSA" then you'd be a fool to do something to trigger the use of it on public roads.

 

I guess it depends on what you mean by "use it" -- if you mean "have it enabled", the answer for me would be "nearly all the time, unless I'm playing (in a safe situation) and I *want* to throttle steer or launch hard".

If you mean "drive such that VSA activates", the answer for me would be "never (so far)". I'd consider myself to be a poor driver if I regularly relied on it to save my bacon in day to day driving

I view VSA as cheap insurance for those times when I've had a bad day at work, my mind's on a million things other than driving, and before I know it the situation has gotten out of hand. Obviously, my goal is to never have that "VSA active" light come on, but I realize I'm only human, and if VSA can save my butt from a moment of inattention, how can that be bad?

Oh, and for some perspective, I've been driving a car with stability control pretty aggressively for the past four years, and it's only activated twice -- once in a snowy parking lot when I was intentionally trying to get it to activate, and once on a rainy day going around a corner with a railroad crossing going across the road at the apex. The situation was such that if the car didn't have stability control the rearend would wiggled a bit and nothing else would've happened.

So I just don't view VSA as being a big intrusive thing...

Just my $0.02,

Ed

 

I agree with Ed. I have had it come on probably once a week while i slam it into second as i enter a specific on ramp at a 90 degree turn and get the rear end out a little. I wouldn't do it with the vsa turned off.

 

its always on for me unless i want break traction for a reason

 

I leave it on unless I have a specific reason to turn it off. Day to day driving I've hever had it come on. However I agree with Ed, it's nice to have in case I do need it.

 

Mine stays on except for one 90 degree right turn on my way home from work. nice 4-lane wide road, and bever any traffic, so I tend to disable it there and try to slide the turn a little. then I turn it right back on. I'm waiting for the TDE @ MSR to really learn about the car

 

I leave it on. It rains a lot where I live so I like that it's there if something unexpected happens.

 

Thanks for the responses guys. I should have worded it differently, I meant do you have it enabled. I kind of wanted to see if the macho, "I know how to drive and don't need that" would take over, or if those that had it thought it was not wussy to use it. It sounds like the majority are smart enough to keep it on, I'l be looking forward to lower insurance rates because of you guys

 

Only the very small percentage of '06 owners have it on. All of us 05- guys are way too macho for it