Defender traction control from what year/model?

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Debate with mate last night who wouldnt believe me that defenders came with traction control in any model.
I think was an option on TD5 and std on TDCI is this right? so I can nail his arse to the floor tonight!
This how sad our tea brakes are as we were debating the merits of a stage 1 109 and he wouldnt believe me the front brakes were 3 inchs wide and so it went on:D
 
lynall said:
Debate with mate last night who wouldnt believe me that defenders came with traction control in any model.
I think was an option on TD5 and std on TDCI is this right? so I can nail his arse to the floor tonight!
This how sad our tea brakes are as we were debating the merits of a stage 1 109 and he wouldnt believe me the front brakes were 3 inchs wide and so it went on:D
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Optional on Td5's as they could be specced with ABS. Not sure if it was standard or optional on latter TDCI's, pretty sure the 2.4's it was optional.
 
Not really sure what traction control does, but my Defender 90 2005 TD5 will travel at a constant speed in 1st or 2nd without touching the accelerator and without stalling. It doesn't have ABS so I presume there is no official traction control fitted?
 
v8landyman said:
Not really sure what traction control does, but my Defender 90 2005 TD5 will travel at a constant speed in 1st or 2nd without touching the accelerator and without stalling. It doesn't have ABS so I presume there is no official traction control fitted?
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That is the antistall system isn't it?

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So Im basically right
TD5 tc if abs specced
Tdci the same

I worded it badly and didnt expect for a minute that 200/300 had such luxuries:D
 
v8landyman said:
Not really sure what traction control does, but my Defender 90 2005 TD5 will travel at a constant speed in 1st or 2nd without touching the accelerator and without stalling. It doesn't have ABS so I presume there is no official traction control fitted?
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Anti stall, many cars and trucks have the same feature.
 
lynall said:
Debate with mate last night who wouldnt believe me that defenders came with traction control in any model.
I think was an option on TD5 and std on TDCI is this right? so I can nail his arse to the floor tonight!
This how sad our tea brakes are as we were debating the merits of a stage 1 109 and he wouldnt believe me the front brakes were 3 inchs wide and so it went on:D
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11"x3" twin leading on the front of my 109 2a and the S3 ambulance.

Serious stopping power when set up right :)
 
Traction control monitors all four wheels and if one loses grip it will divert power to the other wheels.
So in the event you got "cross axled" where one front and one rear wheel lost grip, the traction control would divert power to the other two wheels by applying the brakes to the spinning wheels.
 
lightning said:
Traction control monitors all four wheels and if one loses grip it will divert power to the other wheels.
So in the event you got "cross axled" where one front and one rear wheel lost grip, the traction control would divert power to the other two wheels by applying the brakes to the spinning wheels.
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That's not exactly how it works. It detects wheel slip/spin via the abs sensors. And will apply braking to that wheel. This will create load on the wheel, which in turn will promote power across the entire axle.

As far as I know the tcs is per axle. So if a front wheel spins and both rear wheels spin together (diff lock open), then the tcs would only activate on the front.
 
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