4x2 or 4x4?

I guess I am odd man out. I have had my present 2WD since 2001. It does have a limited slip rear end. I have owned a truck since 1968, and none were 4WD. I do not go off road with my TC. While it could be nice to have, I have never needed 4WD. Weight wise, I have compared my truck with 4WDs of the same year and model. The 4WD is almost 900 pounds heavier. My truck scales at 6200 pounds. I have been told by my 4WD friends, the 4WDs can get very pricey in repairs to the front axle.

I have had my 2WD in snow several times. I have chains and never have used them. Hard for me to imagine getting stuck in grass with a 4000 pound TC loaded. I do not buy highway only tires.

I bought my 2WD truck used from an estate and got a super deal. If I were to buy a new truck, and did so every few years, I might go with a 4x4 due to resale/trade in value. If I used my truck off road as some folks do, I would go 4x4. As it is, I tow my 4x4 Samurai for off road use.

4X4 all the way. If you don't have enough capacity, you need a larger truck or a smaller camper.

4x4. No question about it. You never know when you're going to need it.

I wouldn't be without 4x4. Ive had buddies with two wheel drives getting stuck on wet grass with their rigs on it. Needed a 4x4 to pull them out.

4x4 and dont look back. The loss in "sticker" payload capacity is minimal. And "real world" payload capacity loss is zero.

I will not buy a truck without 4wd. And after getting stuck a few times in 2wd where 4wd got us out, my wife won't let me buy a truck that is 2wd. The times where 4wd got us out of the situation, I had not expected to get stuck or have any problems.

Then there are the roads I have been able to explore not because I needed 4wd, but because I had the backup of 4wd. Without having the backup of 4wd, I would not have explored the road.

Then there are the times I've been able to do a snow run. Not something I would do in a 2wd vehicle. Have to understand, it's 200 miles just to see more than a few flakes of snow, so seeing 6" on the ground is something special.

Bottom line, the couple hundred pounds lost in payload capacity sure is worth having the peace of mind 4wd gives me.

Most of the TCs I see on the east coast are either tricked out for fishing ON the beach (Maryland, North and South Carolina) or way up in the mountains of West Virginia, PA, and Virginia. In both cases, 4X4 is pretty much standard, if not required.