Tow vehicle advice: 4x4 or 4x2?
I will be buying a new tow vehicle in next 6 months. Recently I have received a lot of advice to get the new vehicle with 4x4. My old truck was a 4x2 and did fine. Why am I getting this advice? I only...
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rhagfo wrote:Supercharged wrote:chevor wrote:Cell ph, $10 month, tow ins. $100 year. 4x4 $3000. $3000-$220= leaves $2880. 99% of the time people need more money.
99.99% of the time you wouldn't need four wheel drive. Its the 0.01% of the time you have to be worried about.
Getting home safely, without paying several hundred dollars and waiting hours for a tow truck....... PRICELESS!!!!!
I've driven since '65 mostly in the Canadian Prairies...winters can be from the end of October till early April. Lot's of heavy snow and thick, hard ice....that does not leave for months.
Similar conditions exist in North Dakota, Montana, Northern Minnesota to name a few.
I also had a stint driving commercial trucks ....none of which were 4WD...also spent some years on the family farm....again, not until the late '80's did we have 4WD....but somehow survived.
I'm not questioning that 4 WD has some advantages...but they have only been relatively common for the past few decades.
What in the world did we do without 4WD before ?
