Hey guys, I just bought my Z (08 6 speed) 3 days ago, everything's been perfect, except.

Tonight is the first night I washed the car and now my TCS button wont disable or enable traction control, not sure if it has something to do with it being wet or what.


I can hear something engaging in the differential but nothing happens. Maybe after I drive for a while it'll finally let me disable it, then if I drive for a while again I can't disable it. (Makes the engaging noise again, or whatever is happening)


Any clue?

 

it shouldnt make any noise, when i bought my car they had the plugs for tcs and gas door backwards. may sound stupid but make sure that isnt the case

 

How would they get those backwards? Isn't the gas door a pull latch and the tcs a push button? Maybe I'm getting the gas latch and trunk latch confused now.

Another thought is to check the fuse box.

 

they are both buttons on my 08, one above the other. the previous owner had an alarm that they took off and dropped that panel down and guess they just plugged the wrong plug into the back of the buttons

 

Holy crap.. you might actually be right. My gas tank has been opening weirdly. I thought it was maybe me hitting bumps opening it but I just clicked tcs and it made that noise and I checked if the tank was open before and it was closed, pressed tcs, heard the noise, tank opened, no tcs off light. How do I fix it?

 

the whole panel under the steering wheel pulls down, and then just swap the molex plugs

 

Thanks a lot man, I haven't done it yet, but I messed around pressing the buttons back and forth maybe it just confused itself but it seems to be working fine and I haven't messed with it yet. If it does it again I'll definitely do that.

 

if it is hit or miss then something is wrong somewhere. i would still pull the panel down and inspect the wires at least

 

You're on the right track. I used to do the same thing when I first got this car. If it makes a mechanical noise when you push it... You just opened your gas cap lol. They're easy to get confused pressing the wrong button at first because of how they are placed lol.

I didn't know connectors are the same, if so like said ensure they're not mixed up.

 

Yeah the mechanical noise! I thought it was like the differential turning or something lol... nope, gas cap. hahah! `

and it also makes a tick in the radio area.... very, very weird.