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CAUTION
Even with ESP-equipped vehicles, the driver remains
responsible for ensuring vehicle stability during operation.
The ESP system can only function within the limits of
physics. ESP functionality mitigates potential vehicle
stability incidents, but cannot prevent them in all cases.
Other factors such as driving too fast for road, traffic or
weather conditions, oversteering, an excessively high
vehicle Center of Gravity (CG), or poor road conditions can
cause vehicle instability that is beyond the capability of any
stability system to mitigate. In addition, the effectiveness
of ESP can be greatly reduced on vehicles towing multiple
trailer combinations.
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CAUTION
The ESP stability system may only be used on vehicles
tested and approved by Bendix engineering. ESP
installations require on-vehicle testing and Bendix® EC‑60™
parameter tuning. See "Advanced ABS with Stability
Control" on page 12 for further details.
Accordingly, the Bendix EC-60 controller is provided with
a corresponding parameter data set that is validated for
a specific vehicle platform. Therefore, specific steps are
necessary should a replacement ECU be required. See
“Obtaining a New Bendix EC-60 Advanced Controller” on
page 18 for further details.
ESP-equipped vehicles should not be driven on highbanked roads – such as those found on high-speed test or
race tracks. Test personnel must have ESP functionality
disabled prior to operating an ESP vehicle on such tracks.