Tried to buy a trailer yesterday but.....

valhalla360 wrote:

Grit dog wrote:

donn0128 wrote:
Silly but so true. 4x4 cost more up front, but you get some of it back when sold. Of course no one thinks about the loss of fuel economy and the dreaded death wobble on Dodge 4x4s that the 4x2 never had to bother with. Oh well, some one will realize the gem some day.

If that's what kept you from getting a 4wd, was the 1mpg and the virtually zero chance you'd get Death wobble on a stock truck that only gets used 4000 miles a year then I'd call that paranoia. You did save $26 a year in fuel though......

I don't know about a death wobble but...

14 to 15 mpg on a truck that does 15,000miles per year with $3/gal gas, thats $213/yr and over 10yrs of ownership, will cost you $2130.

Of course at the same time the extra 4wd system is depreticating similar to the rest of the truck, so if it's $3k for 4x4, you might get $1k back out of it....a loss of $2k.

That's a bit over $4k loss. If you use 4x4 regularly, you might argue it's worth it but for someone asking the question, they likely don't use it and are unlikely to benefit.

If you read it, donno put only like 4kmiles a year on the truck he was talking about.
So maybe it would cost him 50bucks a year in additional fuel with your math...
And no, the 4wd system doesn’t depreciate markedly, compared to an apples to apples 2wd. If anything it’s one of the few features that doesn’t. Sure the whole truck pdepreciates, but show me apples to apples nice used trucks that 4wd only cost $1k Pmore than 2wd. It doesn’t happen, except maybe in rare circumstances.
If my 4wd diesel mega cab was a 2wd, reg cab, Hemi, it would be worth mayyybe $10k, not the $25k easy I could sell it for today. But the reg cab gasser cost more than 30- 40% of the diesel 4x4 when new = better resale for options that are popular.