I finally figured out how to control ESS at will, WITHOUT having to turn it off...

[Dougstdig]

Yeah I noticed that too. If you only lightly depress the brake, it will not turn the car off. But if you come to a light and stop with the pedal down with a lot of pressure, that triggers the ESS.

A lot more brain power needed to do this than just hit the button…

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[SIG551-A1]

A lot more brain power needed to do this than just hit the button…

TBH, I don't mind the ESS, so it's not an issue for me.?‍

 

[Advntrbound]

Yeah I kind'a struggled on how to write it up. It's not the kind of thing one explains very often. my wife only really got it after I showed her.

Don't press the brake pedal hard.

 

[IPRoutes]

I've always had a very light touch with my brakes and my factory brakes usually last me for many years. With every vehicle I've owned when I bring them in for factory services I'm always asking the shop when I will need new brakes and they keep saying "not yet". I've run many new cars to 6 digit readings on the odometer and finally sold them with the original brakes still on them.

When I bought my '22 Gladiator in May of last year for months the ESS almost never kicked in so I never considered the "problem" many seem to have with it... But then a month ago I started wondering "why" isn't it kicking in? So as the child my wife says I am I started playing with it...

It almost never kicks in because I almost never depress the brake pedal all the way! My dad, when I started learning how to drive at 9 years old (yes I had one of THOSE cool dads!) always told me that the second the brake lights go on the vehicle in front of me my foot comes OFF the accelerator. Also when I see a red light pop off in the distance I normally just coast until it turns green again or I end up coming to a very soft stop and the break never gets depressed more than it needs to be to keep the vehicle form not rolling forward anymore.

Well it seems that the mechanism that triggers ESS on the brake pedal is only triggered by a completely bottomed out pedal (I guess that's why the car starts before your foot is completely off the brake) and mine does not trip unless I do THAT on purpose. So I started playing with it until I found I can make it do what I want just by the way I stop the vehicle. My wife was not buying this until this weekend, so I showed her that I could drive all around town without the ESS kicking in, and then I made it stop on purpose 3 times in a row, once after I fully stopped the car then released the brake and let it roll forward a few feet and then I bottomed the pedal out..

Anyway, I don't believe this is unique to my Jeep and I really don't have the time to search the site to see if anyone else has experienced this. So if this is useful information, use it as you will and if not, then ignore it. I also wonder if this is an adjustable thing that someone can play with...

Works fine with the light pressure. But on a steep incline, you have to press the brake harder so ESS always used to activate for me. Also noticed that it is a little different for vehicles with Etorque or Ecodiesel. Pressure to control ESS varies among different engines in my personal experience.

But now that I have an M/T, ESS is deactivated by clutch and not brake pedal.

 

[CPTRU1114]

My ESS always says not ready.

 

[Chilli]

Mine stopped working long ago

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