Hi,
We bought a new Jimny, just a month ago, and I noticed a couple of times the ESC kicking in on straight roads, non-gravel, non slippery, out of the blue. Scares the daylights out of me everytime.
Yesterday, the whole system went mad. Through every corner (~ 60-70 km/h), the ESC went absolutely mad. The Jimny was swaying violently from left to right and I had to make an emergency stop on the side of the road.
I turned off the car, locked the car, then unlocked again and started the car again, hoping it would reset whatever went wrong. Next corner; same thing. I turned the car around and drove home with ESC turned off.
What the ?!? Anybody else have this experience?
It's going back to the dealer in a week (they are busy until then), but this is a major safety hazard IMHO...
I just searched the net a bit further, and this article describes EXACTLY what happened:
carfromjapan.com/article/car-maintenance...skid-problem-solved/
Under some cornering conditions, the Suzuki Jimny ESP system brakes an individual front wheel to correct a skid, which does not occur. It causes the car to rock from side-to-side as the front spring of the braked wheel compresses and expands with the pulsing intervention of the ESP. It can also affect one of the rear wheels.
