stimm32

So I have been poking around and I can't seem to get a straight answer. Is it true that the ESP on the Q5 can only be put into the "off road" mode? It isn't possible to completely turn it off? Some folks say that if you hold the button it will turn off completely, while others say that it can't be fully disabled at all. What is the correct answer to this question?

Thanks!

gk1

I noticed this today as well on the SQ. Pressing the button shuts off ESP according to the display and holding does nothing. Whereas on my S4 first shuts off ASR and holding completely shuts off ESP.

drunkenup

My Q5 used to have the option of ESP off, then sometime in the past 2 years it switched to ESP off road after a service appt or something. It looks like it cannot be completely disabled without coding or something, I've tried holding the button, etc.. Intervention isn't terrible in ESP off road though IMO

Nice to see they let you kill the ESP completely in the SQ5.

Coolieman1220

my 2009 was able to turn off completely below 20mph. then turned back on. my 2012 i can't fully turn it off fully.

stimm32

This car has been babied at the dealer for it's entire life, so I'm betting that if it ever was an option to turn it completely off, that option has since been revoked by a software update.

Thanks guys!

josedebardi

It annoys me that you cannot completely disable it on my SQ5...

It's not so much for road driving, but a few times I have wanted to hoon it around a wet field.
Don't get me wrong, you can get the car doing full 360 spins, but in doing so it vibrates like a bitch as it grabs the brake on each wheel doing everything it can to keep you in a straight line, while I do everything I can to keep going round in circles!!

On the subject of road driving, even using launch control, in the wet, you barely get any wheel spin, the TC doesn't actually kick in (this is in the summer, I expect in the winter it would!). I've had it sideways twice on a roundabout, but you have to be REALLY trying hard to do that, and the TC when it does 'save' you is quite progressive in doing so. In reality I don't think on the road at least anyone is going to be impeded by the TC.

MP4.2+6.0

Back to the old C4...

josedebardi

Haha! Love it.
And the prize for least dramatic drift ever goes to...

spijun

Here the explanation for the system ESP / ASR and much of the technical data (Drivetrain, Quattro, Torsen differential, Sport differential, Transmission technologies...............)

http://m.audi-technology-portal.com/...Wheels/ESP/ESP

http://m.audi-technology-portal.com/en/atp

stimm32

This is what I have been desperately trying to do! Too bad TC will have none of it!