stabilitrak

[HLS]

I have an 09 2500HD. also flash scan with tunes. Problem is while driving (once while changing lanes at about 75, second while driving about 65 going straight on a two way road) stabilatrac kicks in and the truck darts back and forth like a blown tire and the traction control light comes on. the first time on the freeway I though maybe the differential was going out so I pulled the cover and checked it over, second time i was going straight on a dry road, so I pulled the fuse and it hasn't happened since. now I wan't to pull a trailer but the trailer brakes won't work with the fuse pulled out. I would hope the stabiatrac would be completely disabled in tow/haul but doubt it. does anybody have a way to disable it without disableing the trailer brakes?

I am pretty sure stabilatrac is controled thru the ABS moduel and EFI live can't reprogram that. Seems there are a lot of complaints online about stabilatrac not being able to be disabled even when holdong the button until the DIC says it is off. can I hope EFI live might tackle this or should I start looking for a new truck. Was Stabilatrac a option or is it standard equipment now

[joecar]

You do realize that this is out of the scope of what EFILive software can do...

[HLS]

You do realize that this is out of the scope of what EFILive software can do...

This? and from a moderator?????????

I had contacted EFI live several times before my purchase and whoever anserwed my emails was very curtius, helpful and honest. I had found other problems with the scan feature just as they stated I might be able to do. And thanks for pointing out that what I assumed in the first sentence of the second paragraph was correct. at least I did get that help

[Taz]

This? and from a moderator?????????

I had contacted EFI live several times before my purchase and whoever anserwed my emails was very curtius, helpful and honest. I had found other problems with the scan feature just as they stated I might be able to do. And thanks for pointing out that what I assumed in the first sentence of the second paragraph was correct. at least I did get that help

Joecar took the time out of his day - likely using his phone from his place of employment - to answer your question, and made certain that you didn't waste any more of your highly valuable time with trying to program a module that no tuning software supports.

Had you invested the time to search and read a little (that's called self-education) you could have figured this out on your own.

Poor form on your part criticizing a moderator who works tirelessly to help everyone - and on your second post ever.

You may want to leave your sense of self-entitlement and inflated importance elsewhere, before posting on this Forum.

[HLS]

Joecar took the time out of his day - likely using his phone from his place of employment - to answer your question, and made certain that you didn't waste any more of your highly valuable time with trying to program a module that no tuning software supports.

Had you invested the time to search and read a little (that's called self-education) you could have figured this out on your own.

Poor form on your part criticizing a moderator who works tirelessly to help everyone - and on your second post ever.

You may want to leave your sense of self-entitlement and inflated importance elsewhere, before posting on this Forum.

Taz, I am truly sorry if I somehow insulted you. this may be my first few post but I have been reading on this fourm and have found answers here aaand read where many other have gotten answers. And I do have many hours searching (this site and others) with no luck, maybe I am just not hitting the correct keywords but, all I come up with is people complaining about the stabilitrac comming on in an off road situation when the stibilitrac is turned off.

befor I spent my money I had several contacts with EFIlive. I was informed that the scanner had the ability to read other moduels but, I would have to get info on the codes elsewhere this site was one of the places he recomened, I took it that he meant "no promises" which was fine.

This is an EFIlive fourm on the EFIlive website isn't it? Sorry but I took Joecar's reply as a very polite insult. I was not demanding help and even said I was pretty sure it wasn't correctable with EFIlive. A more professional reply may have been "sorry but I don't think EFIlive can help with your problem"

The way I see it, at one time people were looking and asking for ways to tune their EFI vehicals properly and EFIlive made it happen so if nobody asks about correcting GMs stabilitrac problems, nobody will come up with a program for it weather it be EFIlive or someone else.

Taz, you may know Joecar personly and he is probably a great guy and just maybe he read my post at a bad time or maybe mine was one of the last of many replies he did at that time but, no matter, I stll took it as I am asking a dumb question and its not worth the time to answer and I did state in my first post that efilive could not reprogram ABS modole and that is where I believed stabilitrac is controlled from so just asking me if I relise what I am asking is out of the scope of efilive makes me feel he never read the complete post. and yes I do have higher expectations from a moderator

[Chevy366]

Probably a chafed wire somewhere rubbing and making contact. Check near the front, usual place it happens. Standard equipment.

[joecar]

I was being courteous when I wrote that (I am an engineer, so my style may be dry at times), I was writing it from my father-in-law's hospital room while they fixed his IV, from my phone, while visiting during my lunchbreak...

from your prior post it seems that you're asking EFILive to provide programming for modules other than ECM and TCM... EFILive has indicated prevoiusly that they cannot do this, it is out of the scope of engine/transmission tuning.

If you felt my reply was inappropriate then I apologize.

[HLS]

Joecar, I am a slow typer so our posts overlapped. I am sorry that I take your post as a insult/blow-off and I hope thing go well for your father-in-law anytime a family member is hospitalised it is a strain on the whole family. my prayers will be with you and your family

[joecar]

Joecar, I am a slow typer so our posts overlapped. I am sorry that I take your post as a insult/blow-off and I hope thing go well for your father-in-law anytime a family member is hospitalised it is a strain on the whole family. my prayers will be with you and your family

Thanks for the kind words.

I'm an engineer in my day job, so my writing can appear terse and pointed sometimes... but I can assure you I'm not very emotional (my wife comains about it)...

EFILive have their hands full with each new model year's ECM and TCM calibrations for a variety of vehicles... and considering not all ABS modules do Stabiltrac, you can see that even attempting to reverse engineer the many ABS controllers can be exponentially daunting.

The scantool can read trouble codes from some of the ABS modules, but I think that this is not sufficient for your troubleshooting needs, the IPC ond othe modules are also involved.

Also, ABS and/or Stabiltrac is a high liability topic, and while you and I would refrain from suing in case of misadventure, there are many who would not.

[HLS]

Thanks for the kind words.

I'm an engineer in my day job, so my writing can appear terse and pointed sometimes... but I can assure you I'm not very emotional (my wife comains about it)...

EFILive have their hands full with each new model year's ECM and TCM calibrations for a variety of vehicles... and considering not all ABS modules do Stabiltrac, you can see that even attempting to reverse engineer the many ABS controllers can be exponentially daunting.

The scantool can read trouble codes from some of the ABS modules, but I think that this is not sufficient for your troubleshooting needs, the IPC ond othe modules are also involved.

Also, ABS and/or Stabiltrac is a high liability topic, and while you and I would refrain from suing in case of misadventure, there are many who would not.

sorry, I didn't see there was a second page. I guess I am bit of an optimist. I feel as long as there are Guys (and Gals) Taking vehicals off roading somebody will answer the demands. I am not saying it will happen but, we know people are taking these things off-road.

It seems as if I have made an enemy of one of the forum members here. So, I would also like to asure you I didn't just have the problem yesterday and jion to start trouble because I was having a problem. My first occurrence was a couple months ago. it took me a couple weeks and the second occurrence to figure out it was the stabilitrac. pulling the fuse was buying me some time which I was using to search for a solution. my desperation came when I hooked up to the trailer and found the factory trailer brakes do not function without the fuse I had removed to dissable the stabilitrac. let me assure you I do have many hours of searching, I have owned EFIlive for a few years now, I spent many hours on this forum and many others before and after my purchase. this is the first problem (controle module related) I have not been able to find a solution by doing the rutine searches. I am a member on a very few forums, maybe do to my poor typing skills, I am not sure but, I am content with sitting in the background searching for my solutions and sometimes just reading what others have done or just have to say, I am just not sure because if you were to ask anyone who knows me, they would tell you if we all were to meet face to face that I would be talking from start to stop of the meeting. I have only joined forum boards for two reasons. if I can help someone who seems to be having a problem simular to one I have solved for myself or as in this case when I have searched until my eyes are bugging out of my head for to many knights in a row. it is easy to say the question has been answered many times and I have had problems myself looking for threads I know exist so I could post a link for someone who is asking a simular question. I may have just registered yesterday but I have been here for many years. my guess would be at least 3 maybe 4 or 5years.......well scratch that I just went back to my saved emails and found the one in which Andrew Jensen replied to my question about reading other modules which was dated 11/8/09 and I had already found solutions on this site and was the main reason I was tring to justify buying the flash scan tool for myself. bottom line, I myself couldn't say how many hours I have into this problem

Thanks