Guys, in desperate need of ideas on how to fix my car.
I’ll be driving along and for no reason the traction light will come on and stay on for no reason. Turn the car off and on and it goes out. Its starts off doing this once or twice a week, then slowly over the coming week it gets to the stage that 15 mins into any drive the light will come on and stay on. Pressing the button on and off makes no change, only thing that resets it is turning the car on and off. Have even tried physically turning the traction control off at the start of a drive, I then drive the car for 20 mins, go to turn the traction control on again and the light on the dash stays on.
On the most, the car will drive fine , it’s just that the light is on. But after a week or so of it coming on all the time, it seems that the DSC is tricked into thinking the car is out of control and Ive have had it kick in mid corner!!! There is a corner 200m from work that I do at 30km/hr whilst the car is cold that makes the DSC flip out every time!!! Like I said, it only does this after the light has been coming on for a week or so.

Now that I’ve explained the symptoms, he is what I’ve tried so far. Of course my first call was to Ford dealership, they scanned it and it said “steering angle sensor needs calibration”, so after paying my money, they re calibrate it and its fine for another 6 weeks. This went on 4 times, every time Ford had an excuse, first it was due for a wheel alignment, then it needed it cos I replaced the front end bushes, then it was cos I put wheels on it and they needed to put the new sizes into the ECU/ I coped it all on the chin, but everysingle time the outcome was the same.
Done, dusted, I had it recalibrated twice more after having changed nothing on the car at all, then 6 weeks ago, I took Fords advice and “next logical step” and replaced the steering angle sensor itself. Even tho the error is calling for it to be “recalibrated” and not actually faulty I thought, Ok lets do it.

Guess what happened today? The light came on again!!!
Whats my next step?

Edit: car is dead stock apart from wheels and intercooler upgrade

Hey mate did you ever end up fixing this concern? I have an 06 fairmont with the exact same story

seeing as this is from 2012 .... and op only did one post . . . . I think not

Tyres all the same size and profile? too far out of size and profile makes them play up

Yeah tyres and rims are all standard, it logs a fault code for the steering angle sensor which I have replaced before so I’m thinking it may be a problem in the abs module given that’s what the sas communicates with