Thread: ASR versus ETS
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Old 03-29-2006, 12:17 AM
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I don't think that ETS is really a traction control system, it is just an electronic means of accomplishing what a mechanical LSD differential does.

Since MBs with ETS have an open differential, when one wheel spins, it applies the brakes to that one wheel to stop it from spinning and thus allowing more torque to be delivered to the other wheel.
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