Oklahoma roads triggering my ABS...?
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chris360hawks
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Yeah my triggers pretty easily if I hit a bump while braking hard. I think big tires exaggerate too.
CO_FlyFisher
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Big tires relative to our trucks coupled with good suspension travel makes the ABS engage more easily. It's a really complex system with more than 7 sensors at various points on the truck (one at each wheel), so if you're setting it off it is likely that there is a good reason for it. If you're not losing control, maybe it is doing its job?
Carefully try this experiment: You can pull the fuze as Brian mentioned, and then drive an area where you know the ABS always goes off. See how the truck handles differently w/o ABS active. Be prepared to do some emergency maneuvering! My suspicion is you'll want to turn it back on.
I went through this same procedure when I lived in TX and the road I took off of the highway everyday to my house was pretty rough, especially at the right hand turn at the end of the off ramp (imagine what washboard pavement looks like and you have an idea what it was like). ABS would go off every time from the bouncing and it got kind of annoying. I turned it off by pulling the fuze, and then found my @ss end kicking out as I went around the same turn. It was kind of fun in some respects, but drifting a corner in a 4Runner is a little bit dangerous, and I certainly wouldn't want that happening if my wife was driving.
Food for thought.
Carefully try this experiment: You can pull the fuze as Brian mentioned, and then drive an area where you know the ABS always goes off. See how the truck handles differently w/o ABS active. Be prepared to do some emergency maneuvering! My suspicion is you'll want to turn it back on.
I went through this same procedure when I lived in TX and the road I took off of the highway everyday to my house was pretty rough, especially at the right hand turn at the end of the off ramp (imagine what washboard pavement looks like and you have an idea what it was like). ABS would go off every time from the bouncing and it got kind of annoying. I turned it off by pulling the fuze, and then found my @ss end kicking out as I went around the same turn. It was kind of fun in some respects, but drifting a corner in a 4Runner is a little bit dangerous, and I certainly wouldn't want that happening if my wife was driving.
Food for thought.
JohnsD90
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Your driving too fast and braking too late if ABS was keeping you from sliding out, i think of myself to drive fairly quickly on i only kick the ass out when im on the throttle, never the brake.
BTW, ABS doesn't stop you faster, it is for people that don't know how to perform emergency stops and how to control them.
CO_FlyFisher
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Driving too fast, yeah probably, but that's nothing new. I'll admit to being a lead-foot. Braking too late though, not necessarily in this case.
As I said, the road was like washboard, except on (crappy) pavement (think of a lot of ridges across the road about an inch deep spaced about 10-12 inches apart, but not dirt). It was like this for about 10 yards leading into the sweeping right turn, and any amount of braking on that stuff at anything above about 15-20mph had the ABS going nuts. You're just bouncing too much. After a couple of experiences there, I was usually just coasting by that point (and I'm just using this spot as an illustration of my point). This is a perfect example of where ABS does help, because there is no way you can modulate the brakes fast enough there to prevent wheel skid (which is all ABS really does) with the tires bouncing so much, especially somewhere like that where it MAY BE an emergency stopping situation if you were not expecting the washboard. There were more than a few ocassions where you could see that people had slid outside of the "turn lane" because of this.
So you are correct in that respect; ABS does not stop you faster. It is only to prevent you from skidding. Threshhold braking is the fastest, but if you are doing that correctly you will be on the hairy edge of ABS engagement.
sapruby521
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Live in a western suburb and never had my ABS kick in. Only had the TR4 for two months though. But I drive I-44 and some of the side roads quite a bit.
CO_FlyFisher
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Do you think the ABS helped or hindered?
theizzardking
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i fighting the abs quite often, i learned to drive in an old camaro and old bronco 4x4's that didn't have abs, so when i get into a car that has it i find myself trying to brake let off brake and let off so you don;t lock them up which the abs is also doing and it just turns into a whole scary ordeal, lol,
i just need to learn to be a stupid driver and let modern tech. do all of the work, lol, it's hard to remember though when someone slams on the brakes in front of you, lol
i just need to learn to be a stupid driver and let modern tech. do all of the work, lol, it's hard to remember though when someone slams on the brakes in front of you, lol
J-money$$$
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its a common issue. I put a switch in. It took about 30 mins and was super easy.
Diagram14
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Lexus- yeah was the northbound off-ramp at 71st and 169 (I work at Abuelos) that had the giant ridge that has been ground off recently that would set off the ABS regularly. Anymore I really just let off the brakes to roll over the big stuff to avoid the ABS. I do feel like it should not be so easily triggered.
ABS was the reason I thought I was going to rear end that car. It wouldn't let me stop!
I know exactly what you're talking about because I exit off there daily! I do the same thing with big bumps now as well :thumb3:
