So I took my car out in the snow for a quick round trip to Taco Bell and found that I had to turn VSA off to get the car moving?

Leaving it on made my rear end slide sideways from a stop at one intersection and left me completely stuck at another.

I eventually had to turn it off and burn through the snow to get traction, it took about a minute to do that while people honked and went around me.

It seemed to correct after I got moving but I turned it off and on and didn't notice much of a difference.

Anyone else have this problem yet?

I have 12K on the factory tires.

Looks like its time to rev up the fx45.

 

BTW this is my 2006, not the one in my sig.

 

You can't overcome physics. You need to not drive bald summer tires in the snow. The VSA was just saying: WTF?! And not letting you crash it.

The real reason is that your tires were too slippery to get even minimally acceptable traction and would cut your power before you could get moving.

Pretty clear sign your tires are lacking. Be careful!!

 

My tires are definately not bald, but they are indeed summer tires.

I figured that the system couldn't help in zero traction but I was surprised that I would have to disable it to get anywhere.

Seems counter-intuitive. Others might not realize this.

I'll be careful by driving my infinti instead.

 

The driving sideways sounds familiar

The car does well with dedicated winter tires. Definitely invest in some if you're going to temp fate like that again!

 

I drove stock S02s with less than 30% on the snow. Theres no problem to keep going straight, just hv to counter-steer every single turn(tokyo drift eh lol). But when i come to a complete stop , my rear had to keep spining out to get moving, kinda dangerous though. i just drive around 20-25km( slowest on the road) all day. IMO, the AP1 that without traction control is way better than hving it. Coz you know wht the car is doing and as long as you dont do any stupid things u will be fine. I drove a 350z last snow season, it sucked balls....not to mention goin straight, i used 40 mins to get out my parking lot that can use less than 15 sec in gd weather. Some can say turn off the TC, its useless though. Although u turned it off, but u still get 20-30% of the system workin. Its not 100% off

 

Winter tires.

 

What does this mean? When you turn off the VSA, it's totally off. Unless you're speaking of your 350Z?

 

Please do. Otherwise the title of your next thread will likely be: "I just crashed my S2000 in the snow." As others have stated, the S2000 does as well as any other car when equipped with proper snow tires (like Blizzaks), but is a disaster waiting to happen when driving in cold/snowy/icy weather on the stock tires.

 

VSA does wonders on ice/snow on decent winter tires. I have studded tires and on ice the car just goes where i point it with VSA. without - well it goes.. somewhere... in circles... with lotsa wheelspin But even VSA needs some traction to work