I haven't heard as many horror stories about subframe failures on E46's as E36's, so shouldn't be a problem unless you are out driving extremely hard all the time.

As far as the DSC the only thing you can really do is hold the button down for about 10 seconds until the DSC and brake light comes on, which should turn the whole system off until the car is restarted.
I've barely even looked in the engine bay of an E46; what exactly engages the loss in power? I assume is electronic as opposed to a secondary throttle body like in the E36. Thankfully in the E36 you can just spend $15 and put in a non-ASC boot, which I'm going to change to a samco unit soon hopefully.

11/21/2006 12:34:27 AM

some regulators are proposing making DSC standard on all cars

11/21/2006 1:43:39 AM

more like subframe ripping out of body failure. The actual subframe doesn't fail.

11/21/2006 3:14:41 AM

ECU retards timing I think ^^^ that's how most of those systems work these days

11/21/2006 9:10:55 AM

^^^that's fucking gay

i wish they didn't even require airbags and all kinds of other stuff that drives up the price and weight

11/21/2006 2:16:10 PM

your opinion no longer counts. if you can't figure out how to disable the traction control, you probably need to have it enabled.

11/21/2006 10:41:18 PM

^^^no... cutting fuel/spark was a somewhat common practice with mechanical throttles for a while. most systems now are going to throttle control with drive by wire becoming common place. the earliest systems used brake control. modern stability systems use a combo of brakes/throttle control. there are a some odd ball systems out there that eat torque through differentials, like mercedes.

11/21/2006 10:59:17 PM