We got a bit of snow over the weekend and I had to take the Odyssey out to pickup some groceries. I turned on snow-mode, but couldn't make it up a small hill in my neighborhood. The VDC indicator light turned on and I got zero power to the wheels. After disabling VDC, I could get the car up the hill (w/ some slipping of the wheels of course). Am I doing something wrong? I thought "snow" mode should alter how VDC is working on the car.
serov
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Depending on how steep of a little hill is, the ABS sensor on front wheels maybe detecting a slight slippage and through the process of timing/throttle and ABS braking may not allow the ODY to have any more throttle than idle speed which the weight of your ODY would stop the ODY going uphill at all.
There is no VDC button. You might have seen a VSA light and a button. This helps to stabilize traction mainly for the front end of the ODY, but could also work if the rear end swings around.
To work around as you did by shutting off the SNOW mode (Button), and put the transmission in D mode first than select the D mode again and it will turn to S mode to enable your paddle shifters and then select the right side of steering wheel paddle shifter (pull to you to goto higher gear and the left paddler shifter to go down gears) into 2nd or 3rd gear to start your ODY up the hill, remember not to over throttle as you are trying not to slip the wheels for traction. The SNOW mode will not always help but can on 2" or less of snow and on spotty icing, but on steep hills forget it.
Hope that helps you.
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