zombieite

Thanks forum posters, for educating me in this procedure. Here's me giving back.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zombiei...7632785264438/

Some people seem confused by why the 2012 Owner's Manual says there's a steering wheel dance trick (a sequence of seemingly random actions that send messages to the computer) you can do to permanently deactivate ESP, but it doesn't work. I suspect it's because that would pretty much "break" ESP, and stability control is now mandatory. So it was probably intended to be a feature, but the feature had to be removed at the last minute, and the manual wasn't updated. And that wouldn't be useful to me anyway, because I like keeping stability control on at high speeds on wet or snowy pavement.

This will deactivate stability control, ABS, and cruise control when the switch is flipped to off. ABS isn't good for off-roading either, and cruise control should not be something you're using with stability control off, anyway. So it's pretty much a win-win-win switch!

And, my mount includes LEGOs.

k0260

lol I thought that tire around your switch looked familiar! Actually looks real good though, nice place to put the switch. I use the same single throw toggle switch but above the driver side dash speaker.

paychex.308

Nice write up zombie! I may just be adding a new switch!

c4bus

I ended up doing this when I bent my tie rod two years ago. I had to pull over and cut the wire because my ESP thought I was going off the road and would pulse the brakes around every corner, which would almost send me off the road.

The only thing is I used a momentary switch. Just breaking the circuit, even for a second will disable it until the jeep is restarted. So all you need is a momentary.

calys003

Good write up! When you flick that switch do a bunch of warning lights turn on in your dash? If so which lights turn on?

zombieite

Yes, the ABS and ESP lights come on and stay on until you restart the vehicle with the switch back on. The cruise control also stops working without any warning lights coming on.

And as mentioned above, a momentary switch would work fine, too. The non-momentary switch like mine would let you leave it off after a restart as well.

j3ph3ry_j33p

one of the more useful/well-described & implemented modifications Ive come across in some time. Thnks, man.
Jeep ON.

ghostjk

So if I wanted my esp off permanently could I just cut the purple wire with the thin light blue line. And cap off the wire to keep it from getting wet etc.

zombieite

Sure. But I'd only do that if I never wanted to drive on-road again, for 2 reasons:

1. Stability control and ABS can save your life in bad weather at speed.
2. In many states it won't pass inspection with warning lights visible on the dash and error codes in the computer.

ghostjk

Is there any way to shut off ESP permanently while keeping ABS?