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Originally Posted by Christian1LE
If anything it seems to me that the more grip a tire has the more likely ice mode is activated. When I say "Ice mode" I'm simply describing a hard pedal with no strong initial bite, feels like the car won't stop but it inevitably does, just a bit of a longer braking zone.
I got what I believe is ice mode several times at my last track day. It very rarely has happened in the past. The only difference this time was that I was on slick tires and I'm using missmatched front/back pads. I have DTC 60's in the front and XP12's in the rear. I've used this for about 6 trackdays now with 0 issues on my OEM tires. The only difference this time around was warmer temperatures and slick tires (R7).
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Interesting! I thought more grip in the tires would have exactly the opposite effect because there would be less slippage/ABS and hence misreading as ice...
What else changed with your new set up? Your driving style? More aggressive?
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Originally Posted by DaveC113
The more you deviate from OEM in terms of tire grip, size, differences in brake pads front to rear, the more wheel speeds side to side and/or front to back will deviate from what the EBCM expects to see and the more likely you are to see ice mode.
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I read something on the Corvette forum that seems to make sense; with stickier pads the car locks up the tires more easily with less brake effort, hence the system thinks you are on ice... however this does not seem to make sense with stickier tires. Can you elaborate on why the change alone would cause more ice mode when both the brake and tires increase in grip?
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2018 ZL1; Mag 2650 and 2 inch LT Headers , every SPL suspension upgrade, MCS 2 way coilovers, sway bars, square SC3R 325's all the way around, and multiple brake cooling upgrades