How to disable ESP system ? - Part II

mikouze · Post by **mikouze** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:57 am

Further to my previous post, on how to disable the ESP system on a jeep, I've tried the advices given by experienced people within this forum.

Holding the EPS button for 7 seconds, shows ESPOFF, but in reality, it still works when in rough condition.

By the way, I have discovered "by chance" how to disable it completely without removing the fuse !
Drive intensively (thanks to marshal rubicon) for one hour and a half, and by getting on & off, the ESP systems overheat (I presume as i don't see any other rational explanation to that), then a yellow alarm light comes on the control panel "ESP BAS"

By reading the owner manual, it shows a malfunction of either the ESP or ABS sytem, which in this case affected the ESP (as i guessed it was too hot), then it completely disable it, till you turn down your engine and it cools down.

So i didn't trun off my engine till the end of the trip, to keep this ESP fully disable, which was much better to drive, but for sure, doing that every trip is not recommended at all, so as advised by my peers previsouly, i'll go straight to install the famous kill switch !

Have a good ride...

Vader · Post by **Vader** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:45 am

Hello,

What car do you have?

The cleanest and easiest solution is to install a 'Kill Switch

' one of the cheapest and most important mods I have on my car.

Search for the purple wire!

Z

mikouze · Post by **mikouze** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:28 pm

Hi vader

I got a cherokee 2009, but one member of the trip got exactely the same phenomena with his TJ, and at almost the same time !

I'm going straight to RAMY to buy this kill switch !

scotchyl · Post by **scotchyl** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 2:31 pm

I didn't realise the tj has the option to disengage the abs esp on the car.

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mikouze · Post by **mikouze** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 2:54 pm

Hi guys

do you confirm the famous kill switch looks like that ???

kill switch 2.png

I was more thinking about something nearby the inside control panel , but if it is as the pic above, for sure it's not within the cockpit.

Thanks again for your help.

Allan · Post by **Allan** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 5:15 pm

Nope - doesn't look like the one I had in my old Sahara nor like the one I say Boytjie had in his new JK 2014.

Vader · Post by **Vader** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 6:24 pm

Hi

It doesn't matter what the actual switch looks like as long as whoever is doing the job gets the right wire

you can pick anything that looks cool to you, the switch is just a mechanism to disconnect (on/off) the circuitry. You could even use something like this :p

Vader · Post by **Vader** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 8:12 pm

After doing some research, mikouze and I found this write-up on installing a Kill Switch for a KK and I thought we'd put it out here if someone reads this later:

http://www.lostjeeps.com/forum/phpBB3/v ... 66&start=0

Not too difficult but definitely not as easy as doing this on a JK

Idaho · Post by **Idaho** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 8:47 pm

Vader wrote:Hi

I want one of those but make it with a big red panic button.

Brian (Idaho) JK 0506154559