ESP ISSUES

Those of you with JK`s, make sure you maintain a precise pressure in all four tires. This will ensure less ESP issues. Having even just a few pounds +/- will cause it to activate. I was informed of this from the guys over at Rock Krawler suspentions. After equalizing the pressure, I had fewet ESP activations. Also, you may encounter ESP activation after wheeling. Sometimes by hitting a rut or rock just wrong will slightly tweak your steering/draglinkage. Perfectly centering your steering wheel will alleviate ESP issues.

I need to have my esp looked at, it officaly doesnt turn off at all

Thats not good.

Mine went off when I made a sharp turn and hit a little bump getting on Hwy 37, but it hasn't happpened since.

mine activates on long right turns (cloverleaf). also when i take right hand turns using too much of the skinny pedal... but i would expect that :teacher:

Mine still activates on cloverleafs and sometimes on left hand turns.

My light will not turn off and this will be the second time i have it in the shop for it

sorry cody. that sux. does it activate or does the light just come on?

Light doesn't go off

mine comes on in curves. Jeremy at Rockkrawler said it has to do w/ ESP tolerances of 1 degree. He said to find a shop with the new SnapOn diagnostic tool and recalibrate the ESP with a tolerance of 5 degree and that should fix the problem. Anyone know anyone with such a tool??????

Jeremy told me that as long as your steering was centered and everything else with the lift was calibrated, there shouldn`t be any ESP issues. So who knows.

Anybody know of a good shop to fix my front end???

You can totally disable your ESP if you want. You can wire up a switch to defeat it. The wire is behind the center console (with all of your stereo and heater/AC controls), it is pink and has a light purple line in it. Just cut this wire and splice a switch to it. You can add some wire to place the switch it a better location.

mike, do you have any pics of the mod?

I know this is bad but I found the mod at another forum...sorry. I had the colors wrong...sorry:

http://my.project-jk.com/data/500/espkiller5a.JPG

I hate doing this:

http://jk-forum.com/showthread.php?t=18927&highlight=ESP+Switch

Well hey I have done this mod so I will post a write up soon. It is very easy to do, just got to be sure to cut the right wire.

Tell what wire you need to cut. I`m still banned , so I can`t view the links

CRUX wrote:

Tell what wire you need to cut. I`m still banned , so I can`t view the links

The purple wire with the LIGHT blue stripe on it. The wires are found behind the dash...more specifically...behind the heater controls. I will see it I can plant the pictures here.

I would place the switch where the dealer won't see it:

Make sure you don't cut the first one you see. that is actually the airbag wire, the one for the esp should be closer to the back. Make sure you turn your jeep to the on postion before you do the switch

MudHound wrote:

Make sure you don't cut the first one you see. that is actually the airbag wire, the one for the esp should be closer to the back. Make sure you turn your jeep to the on postion before you do the switch

Is it the same color? The guy that did this said it worked...I'm a little more nervous about this now.

ahhh it's ok the older Jeeps didn't have air bags anyhow!

Redneck went cut happy I no longer have air bags, esp, braeks, lights, seat belt chime, hell the dash lights wont even work anymore, so I don't know what I have and don't have LOL

no really he cut the air bags first but thats ok by me. I hate air bags anyhow.

Your crazy