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Bedlam
Dec 24, 2017Moderator
I had a mini panel van with FWD. With all the tools and parts I carried, it made handling worse than when empty. To get up slippery hills, the FWD would unload wheel weight and just spin out. I would drive it uphill in reverse just to make it and continue in reverse until I found a place to turn around. I’m sure my service van had some more miles on it than what the odometer told. Going downhill, I always had to make sure my heavier loaded rear did not try to pass the front - Sometimes it required more acceleration to pull the rear back on track rather than slowing down more. There were times when I only chained the rear even though it was a FWD.
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