Skip to header Skip to main content Skip to footer. Tips and advice Home Car ownership. How does ESP work? ESP warning light ESP has a dedicated dashboard warning light , which is a yellow car with two skid marks beneath it, as pictured above.
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Car ownership 28 Oct Most Popular. Top 10 best luxury cars S is the connector under the bonnet behind the battery which needs to be drilled to allow the fitment of 2 wires to Pin 38 and pin 8.
Most of the time taken was removing the battery and battery box and gaining entry to the underside of the fuse box. As there are no pins to attach too in S i had to think hard , i finally found an old USB header block , Internal plug 8 pins , i removed a pin and tried it on the pins in S , perfect fit , so i set about drilling the back of the S to allow me to insert the pins.
Solder my wires to the pins and wrapped in shrink wrap for protection. Inserted them into the correct 38 and 8 sockets , held them in place while i push fitted S back into place so they did not come out. Secured the wiring again. Secured all wires and then feed them all through the large rubber gromet next to S I cut the three wires and taped them up as i did not want any part of the circuit going some where i did not know and scotch locked the wires as per the guide to the back of the plug.
Nice one mate, matches in really well and the yellow indicator to inform that it is in off mode is really noticable when illuminated,. But yes the cluster displays the skidding car in yellow when you turn it off via the button just like when you turn it off via the trip computer. Only difference is when you turn it off via the trip computer you get a beep , which you don't get when you just press the button.
Rhino , it's not has hard as it appears , and because it looked tricky was the reason i had not attempted it , when i dug my way to the actual GEM connector i realized that it was not a big job. The biggest part is removing the battery and that's just bolts. I wish I had the bottle to do this mod I'm assuming that I could half do this and replace my blank with the ESP button and piggy back off the standard illumination which would still leave it as inactive?
This Mod only looks hard , yes it takes a couple of hours but it's really not that difficult to do :. I would say you probably have the wiring connector in place so you could just install the button plug and play. I know you no longer have your mk2. Only plan to have this switch as a dummy. Hello, You mention that connector C is in the near side foot well. There are a lot of connectors down there. I know it's not one of the ones that fit on the GEM. Could you help with locating it.
Having had a look behind the trim panel recently on my car to investigate what's needed; here's what I found. Sorry there's no pictures but it was dark and the street light isn't much use and I was struggling to hold the torch and manipulate everything else. The C connector is the largest widthways one nearest the edge of the door pillar with the wires from the loom being vertical.
There's a smaller widthways connector mounted at angle below and forward of the C connector. Do not unplug the C connector unless you've already disconnected the battery; make sure you have your radio code beforehand!
The C connector on my car had a a light blue latching handle which swings upwards and outwards i. The upper static half of C is fixed to the door pillar with two scrivets one either side of where the loom enters the connector body and a large plastic dog-leg clip hidden at the back that's part of the upper half connector's body. If you want to remove the C connector from the door pillar then :- 1 Unlatch and disconnect the lower half of C 2 Undo and remove both scrivets from the upper half of C 3 Wiggle the upper half of C upwards and slightly outwards by angling the top edge away from the door pillar Since my Focus is a Titanium I was rather hoping that I'd only have to add a few of the wires to only one side of the C connector; no such luck though The connector and wires for the ESP switch are not present behind the switch panel either I checked the two taped up connectors; they were both for the heated seat controls so I'll have to pick up the switch illumination feed from one of the other switches.
Also there are no wires or pins for ESP in either half of the C connector at all 1, 5 and 10 which means adding a three wire mini loom through the bulkhead grommet to the C connector of ABS module and the engine bay fuse box. The Finis code for the ESP switch has changed and is only available with a silver finish; new code is for reference the old Finis code was Get it to draw pictures of where your previous cars are right now?
I'll get my coat. Last edited: 20 May I've been informed that you should have a dash light which has the car with skid marks behind it and also on button. The normal TC button will be a wheel with grit flying from it. You must log in or sign up to reply here. Show Ignored Content. Your Username or Email Address: Do you already have an account? No, create an account now.
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