New Truck Sadness

GitGuy513 said:
4WD is pretty handy in the snow which we get enough.
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When I lived in areas with a lot of snow (cursed times, most of my life, water is a liquid damnit!!!), just about any car, with any kind of drive, worked fine as long as it had proper winter tires (and snow wasn’t taller than the car’s ground clearance of course, but in that case no drive will help anyway). RWD, FWD, AWD, whatever. Yes, A/FWD accelerate faster on slippery surfaces, but that’s about the only advantage they have in cities, in my experience.
 
vangrieg said:
snow wasn’t taller than the car’s ground clearance of course
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Exactly this and…FWD can do OK as long as there’s no hills and it hasn’t iced underneath the snow. Not sure where you live, but where I live there is vast areas where you’re in a city and can drive 30 minutes and you’re in a rural area with all sorts of terrain and road quality. IME not all AWD are created equal.

Main issue with a pickup trucks without 4WD is the fact that with nothing in the bed there’s very little weight under the drive wheels. It’s just a matter of convenience and my 4WD truck is a 2010 Ford and works great. I had a 1997 Dodge before that and worked great. So I’m not familiar with the latest pick ups. I do know as each year goes by thinking about buying a new vehicle is excruciating. One has to be very cautious and educated about what they’re buying.

Anyway, happy @Red Solo Cup is riding fine now and continues to do so.
 
I have a 2005 Chevy Silverado 1500 that is pretty mint for its age and only about 140,000 kms. that tells you how much I drive! Some of those models were known to have issues with the transfer case and the remote dash module where it would sometimes stick in 4Lo if you engaged 4x4. There was a trick if you put in reverse <> Neutral <> Drive I learned off youtube you could get it unstuck. it worked! I didnt want to spend the $$ on new transfer case. for the last 10 yrs or so i havent engaged 4x4 unless absolutely necessary in winter months. So far so good ...knock on wood I dont have to replace my transfer case. During heavy snow months which seems less and less as the years go....I just load up the box with sandbags and snow for weight
 
One of the main reasons I even have a 4wd truck is for the control it offers in snow (not talking about braking here, of course.) With hardly any weight in the rear, it's easy to get sideways. But with w/ 4wd engaged, I don't have to drive like I have an egg btw my foot and the go pedal.

That, and the occasional muddy jobsite.

I suppose the makers won't build a FWD pickup because that would be too obvious. Heck, you could possibly make a deeper bed too, w/o the driveshaft taking up that space...?
 
I will have to say that I've picked up some good info in this thread. I own a 2025 4WD Tundra, the third of these vehicles I've owned since 2019. In all that time, I've maybe used the 4WD twice, both times pulling zero-turn mowers out of the mud. It never crossed my mind to just put it in 4WD going down the highway, etc. I'll sure keep these lessons in mind going forward!
 
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