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Used Volkswagen Polo ESP Switch
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About ESP Switch
A vehicle’s Polo VolkswagenESP switch is an important component which operates the car’s electronic stability programme. The electronic stability programme is designed to intervene in the event that its sensors detect that the vehicle is about to skid. It does this by detecting whether the direction in which the driver is steering corresponds with the direction the car is taking.
The intervention of an electronic stability programme, which operates through a microcomputer which receives signals from a set of sensors, can take two forms. Firstly, it utilises the car’s brakes to return the car to the track that it should be taking. Secondly, it can work on the vehicles engine output to cause the wheels to accelerate. Both of these interventions can be made independently of the input of the vehicle’s driver.
The Polo VolkswagenESP switch in most vehicles is permanently switched on, meaning that the protection against skidding that is provided by the system is always active. ESP is particularly helpful on greasy roads and in snow and ice.
Because of the beneficial effects of an electronic stability programme on the safety and stability of a car in adverse weather conditions, if the Polo VolkswagenESP switch should fail to operate it should be repaired or replaced as soon as possible.
Volkswagen trivia
- Volkswagen has produced four winners of the 50-year-old European Car of the Year award. 1992 – Volkswagen Golf, 2010 – Volkswagen Polo, 2013 – Volkswagen Golf, 2015 – Volkswagen Passat
- The Volkswagen AG group also owns Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Seat, Skoda, Ducati, MAN and Skania. Breakeryard.com also sell starter motors and other used parts for Audi, Seat and Skoda but, unfortunately, not Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini or Porsche.
- Everyone knows a VW Beetle was used in Herbie, but did you know Volkswagens’ also appeared in Happy Gilmore, Footloose, Transformers and Double Trouble with Elvis Presley!
- The first Volkswagen car was the ‘Type 1’ although you may know it as the Beetle. Over 20 million were sold before production stopped.
- Volkswagen was founded in 1937. It now sells cars in 160 countries, employs 200,000 people worldwide and sold over 6 million vehicles worldwide in 2018.