Gen 3 - Traction Control light on after battery change

[All-Terrain]

My '06 had an Optima Red Top battery in it from the previous owner. After years of service, it died, so today I took it to Advance to replace it with one of their standard "Gold" batteries, 700CCA, correct size.

The truck is 100% stock and never modified. No issues with it at all, prior to changing the battery. I brought the new battery home today, installed it, and started the truck. It started right away and runs perfectly... except now I have a light on in the cluster, for the Traction Control (swerving vehicle icon).

I tried cycling the TC button down on the center console, but that didn't apparently have an effect. I drove the truck about a half mile, slowly turning left to right, did some circles in both directions, but no change. I shut the engine off, and re-started the truck. No change. I ran the truck for approx 5-10 mins, and shut it off.

... any ideas??

 

[Toasty]

Add Lockers and pull the bulb and fuse for that system, fixed! Make sure to tell your wife that this is an important system for safe driving and needs to be repaird and needs to be repaired right with expensive parts.
You're welcome.

 

[dieseltechJay]

Either, you need to keep driving it a while longer, or there is a sensor that has failed. When you removed a battery it resets the KAM ECU which is the infamous "learning computer". It has the ability to learn a sensors input and adjust parameters to compensate for a failing sensor to the point of total failure. A KAM's memory of these learned parameters gets erased when the battery is disconnected. The computer sees a sensor out of whack and flags it. If the sensor is still functioning the KAM will relearn it (up to 200 miles of driving), or it's time to read the fault code and find where the problem lies.

Or there's Toasty's approach which is also highly valid, and possibly just as expensive as chasing a bad sensor and replacing it.

 

[montypower]

Add Lockers and pull the bulb and fuse for that system, fixed! Make sure to tell your wife that this is an important system for safe driving and needs to be repaird and needs to be repaired right with expensive parts.
You're welcome.

I like it.

My suggestion:
Just drive it. The system may auto reset itself.

 

[nnamssorxela]

IIRC it's something about the steering wheel needing to be "calibrated." By the time I back out of my driveway and make it to the end of the street, the light will be off. I believe there is a certain speed you need to reach (40 kph?) as well. There is a thread somewhere here that explains how to re-calibrate, but essentially driving to the end of the street will get it.

 

[All-Terrain]

I like it.

My suggestion:
Just drive it. The system may auto reset itself.

IIRC it's something about the steering wheel needing to be "calibrated." By the time I back out of my driveway and make it to the end of the street, the light will be off. I believe there is a certain speed you need to reach (40 kph?) as well. There is a thread somewhere here that explains how to re-calibrate, but essentially driving to the end of the street will get it.

Yep. Had to drive it for a few miles. The light shut itself off. Soon after, the TPMS light came on. That shut itself also a little bit later.

I still have to drive slowly in circles to recalibrate the compass...