Esp bas

RockinAZJK said:

To start this off: my caster angle has been wrong for quite some time now causing the Jeep to be all over the road. Well I corrected the caster angle tonight and now that it is not all over the road it is noticeable that the steering wheel isn't straight. So driving home from dinner tonight the ESP BAS light came on. (I know I know, it should be a simple fix)

Now here is my dilemma:
I have to drive to Phoenix from my mountain town tomorrow morning around 730am. It'll be around 20 degrees here at that time and I would much rather just fix the steering wheel in the warmth of Phoenix, but I'm not sure if the ESP BAS system will go into limp mode or anything. I have the traction control turned off using the key dance though.

Does anyone have enough experience with his and want to chime in?


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RockinAZJK said:

To start this off: my caster angle has been wrong for quite some time now causing the Jeep to be all over the road. Well I corrected the caster angle tonight and now that it is not all over the road it is noticeable that the steering wheel isn't straight. So driving home from dinner tonight the ESP BAS light came on. (I know I know, it should be a simple fix)

Now here is my dilemma:
I have to drive to Phoenix from my mountain town tomorrow morning around 730am. It'll be around 20 degrees here at that time and I would much rather just fix the steering wheel in the warmth of Phoenix, but I'm not sure if the ESP BAS system will go into limp mode or anything. I have the traction control turned off using the key dance though.

Does anyone have enough experience with his and want to chime in?


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wayoflife said:

Not sure how correcting your caster threw your steering wheel off but why not just recenter it? All you need is a 15mm wrench and about 3 minutes of your time. :idontknow:

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RockinAZJK said:

It didn't throw the wheel off, the wheel was apparently already off, but being that the caster was about 8 degrees off it was just all over the road and flighty, so you could never tell that the wheel wasn't straight


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wayoflife said:

Ummm, if you really had 8° of caster, your Jeep would have driven straight as an arrow and felt like a sports car. Too little caster as in, LESS than 4° or negative caster would cause your Jeep to feel flighty. Are you sure you corrected the right direction?

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RockinAZJK said:

It was 8 off. As in negative 4-5 degrees. It was terrible. Corrected it last night and now it drives great except that now you can tell the wheel isn't straight and the light came on


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RockinAZJK said:

I was just hoping to avoid it till I got to the warmer weather. It's about 20 degrees and frozen here


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wayoflife said:

LOL!! I feel your pain but being that you just adjusted your caster in those conditions, something that is a lot harder, I would think that a quick loosening of 2 bolts and a turn or two of a turn buckle would be no big deal. But hey, that's just me.

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wayoflife said:

LOL!! I feel your pain but being that you just adjusted your caster in those conditions, something that is a lot harder, I would think that a quick loosening of 2 bolts and a turn or two of a turn buckle would be no big deal. But hey, that's just me.

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RockinAZJK said:

Ok got it straightened out. Is there anything I need to do to turn the light off?
Also thanks Eddie! Happy thanksgiving!


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