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Posted on Feb 25, 2011

I just recently purchased a 2007 Ford Focus SES that had only 75000 km. I have never driven a car with traction control on it. We had a snow storm, and when I accelerated to about 45 km per hour, I had a hard time controlling the vehicle. I was sliding all over the road, almost into oncoming traffic. The traction control light was on. What is the best way to avoid a situation like this? Is it possible that the traction contol is not working?

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All vehicles will slide in the snow. Traction control or not. What traction control does, in simple terms...Is when your wheel start to slip, which is detected by some sensors, it lowers the vehicles throttle position, slows the RPM's down, even if your foot is still on the gas, for a matter of seconds, until the wheels stop slipping. So when you feel or hear your vehicles engine slowing down on its own, its best to just let off the gas and let it go for a couple seconds. A way to test the traction control...From a stop, if you are in the snow, and you push the gas down a good bit, make it spin, and the vehicle should seem to power down on its own, while the light comes on, if it does not do this, then traction control would not be working. Hope this helped.

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