2wd or 4x4?

Terryallan wrote:

Grit dog wrote:

Terryallan wrote:
No you don't need 4x4 to tow. it actually hurts the tow capacity. In 30+ years of towing campers, and boats. I have NEVER needed 4x4, and haven't been stuck, anywhere. even on wet grass. Which I don't understand how that happens, but folks complain about it so I guess it could happen. And you can't use 4x4 on the road any way.
However. IF you want 4x4 then get it. It's your money. and you are the only one you have to please. The only time you would need it is after you unhook, and go play in the sand or something. But running up, and down the road . Nah.

For a guy with so many opinions, you musnt get out much!
Contrary to your belief, there are many locations and situations where no 4wd is a no-go period. Just not the trips to the local state park on a nice summer day....

Been camping for 30 plus years, and towing for 40+ years. Have NEVER needed 4x4 while towing, and I camp at the beach on sand, in the mountains on dirt, grass, what ever. Cross country thru the Rockies, down the Coast highway, thru the Blue Ridge

Could be. That since 4x4 vehicles were virtually nonexistent when I started driving. I learned to drive with out it. There are many DRIVERS that learned to drive with out 4x4. And we went EVERYWHERE we wanted to go with out it. Even out on the beach in heavy sand.

I guess what I'm saying is. It could be a skill thing. Example. A few years ago we had to park the busses in a wet muddy field. I followed the first buss into the field. He made the turn hit some soft mud, and got stuck. I had to suddenly steer around him, and I drove on until I found some hard ground, and stopped there. Why did he get stuck, and not me?? Same field, same mud. It's a skill thing. Its how we were taught.

Well...I have to agree with Terryallan. I grew up in the '50's, started driving in the '60's Drove a lot of trucks on the family grain farm. All most farmers had back then was 2WD. There wasn't much 4WD of any kind back then.

We...guys back then, who spent time on farms.... learned to drive quite proficiently, with our...for the most part...2WD, rear wheel drive vehicles that almost always didn't have any traction control such as posi- traction limited slip.

I live in a part of North America where winters are long, snow and ice comes in late October/November...stays till March/April.

I have always had 2WD and do a lot of driving on back country roads. I'm cautious, have emergency stuff...shovels, folding traction bridges, etc....but I also know how to get out of most stuck situations fairly quickly, from driving cars, motorcycles, trucks, commercial vehicles... since 1965.

I'm nothing special, just a guy like many others who had to make do with what we had way back when...no Trail Rated package Jeep Cherokees, no jacked up 4WD pickups with Detroit lockers, etc...because there wasn't anything like that back then. So you have to become as proficient as you can, with what you have...because if you get stuck out on a lonely prairie road in a snowdrift at 20 below....you're on your own. Remember no cell phones to call your buds...back then.

So I'm not saying don't get 4WD (my son has a 4WD Jeep)...but get it if you want it or feel you need it. Everybody is different.

Me, I've never had it and things have gone fine. But as I'm no spring chicken, I have thought...maybe before I check out...I'd like to get a 4WD...see what it's like. :B But I'll still carry my emergency kit and drive cautious....but that's just the result of my experience.

What did Will Rogers once say...good experience is the result of bad experience. I think old Will was on to something. :D