Active Handling Warming Up

[Rich Z]

For many years I repaired computers and I learned the value of tying together what seemed to be unrelated events that happened to be precursors to more serious problems or else symptoms that at the time did not seem to be related to the actual problem.

This may be one of those cases here.

Not too long ago, every time I took my Z out for a drive, I would get that Active Handling Warming Up message on the display. Now I live on a sandy road which is about a mile long and my driveway is unpaved as well. I just figured it had something to do with the road surface, but it was kind of strange that it only started happening recently. But what the heck, just another one those puzzles, I thought.

Now the Z06 does not have tire pressure sensors in the wheels, so when I noticed via eyeball that my right rear tire was going flat, I checked it and found I had a very slow leak from a screw being through the tread. Pressure was down to about 12 pounds. I got out the inflator and pumped it back up to 28.5 pounds and eventually got the tire repaired. Now interestingly enough, I have NOT gotten that message displayed since then.

So was the car trying to tell me something? Will an underinflated tire trip that Active Handling message? I haven't seen anyone else comment on it, and it just may be my barking up the wrong tree, but I know for a fact that if I see that message again, I am CERTAINLY going to check my tire pressures, just in case.

For what it is worth........