Tonight, I drove my JK (with 500 mi now) out of a store parking lot's moderately sharp driveway (in my vette, I have to take the ramp at an angle to avoid scraping) onto the street, and the esc started flashing. (This has happened before, for example, driving over speed bumps, and I thought the esc seemed a bit sensitive for an offroad vehicle.)
On the street, I drove up to a traffic light and stopped and the esc light went off. Light changed, I started through the intersection and the esc light started flashing again, power was reduced, and it felt like the left front brake was activated because the jeep pulled left hard. I backed off the gas, then started driving again - same results - only now I also had some guy behind me leaning on his horn. Anyway, I kept trying to drive with the jeep lurching forward until the power cuts out and then nosing left toward the curb (I'm in the left lane of a divided road since I need to make a left turn ahead). Finally, I just stopped in the lane, found the esc button, turned it off (horn behind me blowing steady now) and started up again. Same thing. By the time I made a left turn maybe 1/4 mile later everything was back to normal. Made the next 3 miles to home without further incident.
Guess the people behind me thought I was drunk. Whatever. Any ideas? I'm going to see if I can activate the esc again tomorrow (on a side street or maybe in a parking lot). Or maybe just take it back to the dealer for service.
I did a search here on esc and someone suggested a vehicle out of alignment could cause this. My JK drives very smoothly at all speeds so I doubt it's an alignment issue (believe me, after lurking on the forum here and reading about the death wobbles, I paid careful attention to how the jeep drove).
On the street, I drove up to a traffic light and stopped and the esc light went off. Light changed, I started through the intersection and the esc light started flashing again, power was reduced, and it felt like the left front brake was activated because the jeep pulled left hard. I backed off the gas, then started driving again - same results - only now I also had some guy behind me leaning on his horn. Anyway, I kept trying to drive with the jeep lurching forward until the power cuts out and then nosing left toward the curb (I'm in the left lane of a divided road since I need to make a left turn ahead). Finally, I just stopped in the lane, found the esc button, turned it off (horn behind me blowing steady now) and started up again. Same thing. By the time I made a left turn maybe 1/4 mile later everything was back to normal. Made the next 3 miles to home without further incident.
Guess the people behind me thought I was drunk. Whatever. Any ideas? I'm going to see if I can activate the esc again tomorrow (on a side street or maybe in a parking lot). Or maybe just take it back to the dealer for service.
I did a search here on esc and someone suggested a vehicle out of alignment could cause this. My JK drives very smoothly at all speeds so I doubt it's an alignment issue (believe me, after lurking on the forum here and reading about the death wobbles, I paid careful attention to how the jeep drove).