2wd vs 4wd

If you don't see the need and your experience bears that out then I wouldn't get it.

I love my 4x4!!! We got 15.5 inches of snow on Monday.

Please do a seach on this subject. This deceased equine has been beaten waaaay too many times.

To each his own.

....being a newbie. ..I apologize for not searching first. ..forget the topic...bo

Unless you plan to drag that thing through mud/snow/etc. up a hill, I wouldn't get 4WD, either.

Do be aware that there's a huge difference between 4WD and AWD. The former cannot be used on dry pavement, lest it break things in the axle. Very few vehicles offer BOTH 4WD and AWD in the same vehicle, it is usually one or the other.

That said, also note that both 4WD and AWD will only help you go when the going gets tough. Neither is any help whatever steering or stopping, which are the other two parts of driving. And are indeed more important than going.

(No doubt you've heard the joke: "If you can't go, there you are; if you can't stop, where are you?")

I have 2 wheel drive. I have gotten stuck in my own back yard(flat),
trying to get my trailer put away.
Sooner or later I will have to get into, or out of, a campsite in the rain, on a hill.
I have the auto club, but just engaging 4 low would be worth the price, even if only used a couple times in 5 years.
Next truck will have 4x4.

We own a four wheel drive and always will. I cannot get up my back driveway where the fiver is parked without four wheel engaged, 100 degree turn to enter a gravel 12% grade then turn at the top around 80 degrees. I like the saying its better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it. Good luck with your decision.

If you had to ask...you don't need it.

Me on the other hand...I know what I prefer.

My first four trucks were 4x4... I never used it... even off road to get to my hunting spot.. never needed it.... even in the snow.. LOL

Last three trucks have been 2wd... Haven't had a day that I wished I had the 4x4.

If you need 4x4.. you need 4x4... but if you have to ask.. you probably haven't had a need for it in the past.. which means you still don't need it unless you plan to go offroading or plowing through snow drifts or something.

Thanks!

Jeremiah