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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pnichols wrote:
For 2WD or 4WD vehicles to have better slow speed traction in ANY conditions ... and if your vehicle has an automatic transmission ... try manually putting the transmission in 2nd gear. That helps feed torque very gently to the tires so as to keep wheel spin as low as it can be in keeping with the conditions - even on ice.
(However, I recently had a modern loaner car that did NOT allow manual selection of gear ratios - only Drive, Neutral, or Park. What on Earth is up with that????? Ya gotta love today's marketeers and engineers with too much time on their hands!
I find that to be rather normal. My 1952 Kaiser Manhattan with Hydra-matic transmission had 1-2, 1-3, and 1-4 selections. It always started out in 1.
My 1969 Dodge Coronet R/T always started out in low (1)
My 1954 Chevy always started out in low, then shifted to Drive.
My 2001 Dodge 1500 always started out in low.
The Ford vans (E150 Clubwagons) we had always started out in low.
Etc.
Seems to me the automatic transmissions that can be selected to start in any gear are a fairly recent innovation. The selections on most of the cars I have owned were:
P, R, N, D, and L
Well, except for the one that had Park in Reverse with the engine off. That was the Kaiser, IIRC.
