I tried it the other day and got a mild bark out of the tires then felt the dsc hit the brakes in the rear. anyone else done better?

 

btw fully turn it off...ie hold down the DSC for 7 secs until you are totally free

 

Never tried it. DSC always kicks in. I don't wanna kill my precious tread.

LOL

 

with dsc on it may spin for like a second or two then it will shut off

 

let me ask you something mats, do you know what DSC stands for, or what it's purpose is?

 

It will kill your precious clutch, too. A co-worker of mine tried a "DSC on" burnout with his 350z one month after buying it. Three days later, he tried to get a warranty clutch replacement. He got the smackdown, and a bill for $1900. Granted, he's an idiot who didn't know what DSC even meant, but that's beside the point.

 

irrgardless of abuse a clutch dying in 1 month would get lemon lawed....

 

i've done it plenty of times. DSC = drift skill control. it actually aids you if you want to go drifting...

lol...i'm DANomite!!!

 

Dynamic Stability Control.


From an online RX-8 review I found:

The electronic stability control (Mazda calls theirs DSC, or Dynamic Stability Control) works well. The RX-8 wasn't completely forgiving when driven hard on an autocross circuit. With too much throttle it would understeer, or plow the front tires, although it should be noted that most cars would have been hopeless under the same abuse. At first we were surprised that the DSC didn't intervene and correct this, so we repeated the experiment until we felt the DSC kick in. What we learned is that the DSC is programmed to tolerate small errors but saves you from the big ones. In other words, it will let you get away with two feet of understeer in a curve, but not six feet.

And when it does take over, it does it with brakes, by braking one or more wheels needed to correct the imbalance. Some cars do it by cutting the throttle, which skilled drivers find intrusive. The RX-8 will eventually cut the throttle too, but not so early that it frustrates you.

When we switched the DSC off, we discovered two things that together seem paradoxical: how good the DSC is (because we could barely feel it when it was on), and how superb the balance of the RX-8 is, because we could feel it in its natural state.