new GMC 1500 2x4. No one needs 4x4 anyway
Got wife 2018 GMC 1500. No one but famers,ranchers, ult. company, cops, logers, and people up in Canada need 4x4, just something saleman sell people who have good credit anyway. Waist of money.
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Supercharged wrote:Sgeorge wrote:Put 300 lbs. in the rear of pickup, that will work. Cheap was to get it done.
It doesn't snow or even rain much here in Southern California but try pulling a 6,000 boat up a wet mossy launch ramp without a 4X4. Never had a 4X4 until I bought this one, I will never have a 2X4 again.
Quite true as Super says.
That is what we used to do with our rear wheel drive sedans and trucks, before 4WD became commonplace or even available. We would put a couple hundred pounds of weight in the back and generally didn't have traction problems in the winter...or even on wet grass.
I'm talking about when I got my first vehicles and drove in the '60's, 70's, etc. and of course in generations before...such as my dad's...that's what he did, when he got his first vehicles. He drove, starting in the '30's and he continued till the '90's.
We pulled trailers in difficult situations with rear wheel drive (only) Fords and GM's. Where I live we get snow, ice for almost half the year...5- 51/2 months.
