4x4, how necessary is it?

see my profile pic. I was stuck in 2wd with ATRAC on. And I have a very good set of tires. Flipped the 4wd knob and it drove right out.

 

I guess the only problem is what are you going to hook the winch to in an open beach? Other than another car

 

2 winters ago I bought a POS ranger with 300k miles just so I didn't have to get salt on my car. Front diff was grenaded so no 4wd. 750lb of sand in the bed, snow, tires, and 20psi. still wasn't as good in the snow as my taco in 4wd with tires at full pressure.

 

Better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it. Seriously though I have had several pickup trucks before I brought my 06 4x4 TRD Sport tacoma. These trucks were all 2 wheel drive. I live on the east coast mid atlantic area and we get heavy snow every five years. After having my tacoma 4x4 I would never buy another 4x2 pickup truck again. I dont do much off-roading light trails every once in a while. We have had some pretty good size snow storms over the years and I can tell you that my tacoma had no problems in taking on the snow. Also resale is higher for a 4x4 Good Luck

 

You can laugh all you want. Being 19 miles away from the closest paved road, my three employees over the last 10 years were constantly getting stuck in Frontiers and Tacomas. We upgraded our whole fleet to 4x4, and it has been perfect since then.

Having a career, and day job and family in the city, I can't have my guys stuck in our business, and spending days digging out trucks. That doesn't make us money.

 

If you have to ask this question I'd say, "not very". I donno...

 

Psssssss.....quiet...... That is a TROLL. Just ingnore it will go a way

 

Simple, if your asking if you need 4X4 the you don't need it

 

^May have point there

 

better to have and not need than to need and not have.... small percentage price increase on a near $30K purchase for a worthy investment down the road

 

Hahaha

 

exactly

 

$3000 isnt expensive if you know you're going to be using 4wd weekly.

However, a couple weekends every year?

 

you will still get that 3k back on resale though. unless you keep it 20 years.

 

@digitaLbraVo Just start the "Let me choose how to spend your money for you" thread already....

 

I was just joking with ya man. I was making a reference to a thread a couple weeks ago where we were talking about how to spend some guys money on his prerunner because he said money wasn't an object and how we should just start a thread to spend peoples money for them...

 

Go 4wd, I made that mistake twice now and I finally bought a 4wd. I would get stuckin sand, and ice, and snow, and mud...

 

They make 2wd trucks?

 

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