snow driving poll

Snow driving - which is safer (not necessarily more fun...)

  • Small front-wheel drive car

    Votes: 34 41.5%

  • 4wd truck on MTs and FRONT LOCKER

    Votes: 47 57.3%

  • I'm scared, driving in snow is very dangerous and you should never leave the house

    Votes: 1 1.2%
  • Total voters
    82
Tires, Tires, TIRES!

Found out this time they make the difference. Cherokee on bald ass BFG MT's couldnt get anywhere.

Wrangler on almost perfect BFG AT's, rolled right through the foot of snow piled up behind it, and to the store to get more beer. :beer:
 
Dave, you'd be better off in 4wd open/open.

Just my opinion, since I've never wheeled with a front locker only. Seems like it would ''push'' to much or understeer, what ever you call it.

I'm sure it will help get out of a ditch though...lol Let us know!


While I was out playing, while in 4wd, I kept wishing I could E-brake the back end only, to help pitch it sideways, so I could do some KEN BLOCK shiat. Once I did get it slideways, it was on like neckbone, but I wish I could 'pitch it'' on command. 2 wheel drive was great for drifting, but I was really digging the 4 wheel drifting stuff this time around.
 
Dylan W. said:
While I was out playing, while in 4wd, I kept wishing I could E-brake the back end only, to help pitch it sideways, so I could do some KEN BLOCK shiat. Once I did get it slideways, it was on like neckbone, but I wish I could 'pitch it'' on command. 2 wheel drive was great for drifting, but I was really digging the 4 wheel drifting stuff this time around.
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Just need more throttle... or a handbrake. Try turning in, then blip the throttle and maybe jerk the wheel to the inside. Once the back end starts to step out, fawking pin it and countersteer. The tires might not be helping you any, either. Those fat Iroks might hook up too well, and the size and relative gearing means you need more power in order to keep all four cooking.
 
I've got the best of both worlds, a 4x4 Toyota Tercel wagon, full time front wheel drive, with a munual lock in rear. Its like some strange breed of snow goat.
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It will push snow untill you are tired of driving in it! :lol:
 
saf-t scissors said:
Just need more throttle... or a handbrake. Try turning in, then blip the throttle and maybe jerk the wheel to the inside. Once the back end starts to step out, fawking pin it and countersteer. The tires might not be helping you any, either. Those fat Iroks might hook up too well, and the size and relative gearing means you need more power in order to keep all four cooking.
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Yep, I was doing all of the above, but the turn in and blip it was not as dependable as a handbrake would be...I need the hand brake that only locks down the back..mine(if it worked) would lock front and rear. KEN BLOCKS hand brake cranks down on the rear tires only, while in 4wd...awsome.:driver:

I'm geared 4.88 w/ a 4.0...in the snow, that's enough power on 36's to have fun.....but.......Man, I wish i could thrash on Ken's car...lol

OR ...just get that hand brake.
 
He also has 3-4x as much power as you do and tires half as tall.
 
saf-t scissors said:
He also has 3-4x as much power as you do and tires half as tall.
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True...but the snow put me in the ballpark...in my mind anyways..lol

In my jeep, on dry pavement....ha ha forget it...Duh!.
At least the slick stuff let me pretend some.:driver:

I bet I could impress Ken( a little bit), if he'd let me drive his car..I know he's the man...but I bet I wouldnt look totaly stupid..well maybe not:lol: I know it would be fun fer sure.
 
Drove from Dallas to Collettsville today (just south of blowing rock), then drove around at my parents property with 10-15" of snow. 235/75r15 BFG AT's in decent shape did excellent. The NP242 with full time 4wd is about the best thing going on the slushy/icy secondary roads. I had to put it in low range to move around on their unscraped trails and road. It took way to much throttle to get it going in high range. It was cool seeing the diffs dragging on the top of the snow though.
 
Jeff B said:
Living in South dakota & Minn. I have dirven in some nasty deep snow. Best vehicle was 1997 cherokee sport with np 241 & Bfg AT tires. It would just go. 6" of snow no problem, black ice comming back from the black hills at 75 mph lock it into full time 4x4 no problems.
You have to have 10 pounds of bacon in the trunk though.
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You speak the truth, I lived in SD for albout 9yrs and have driven through lots of snow and ice especially in the hills. My little Nissan pickup was pretty much worthless if it snowed but when I got an 84 Cherokee and put 3" and 31's I could go anywhere I wanted no matter how much snow was on the ground 6" or up to the grill. Even when the highway was covered in packed snow the tires wouldn't spinout and I was trying too. IMHO it has a lot to do with the tires that are on, I've seen guys with 4wd's with all the bells and whistles stuck in the ditch and crappy FWD cars with decent tires moving right along. I would venture to say it also has a lot to do with a drivers experience driving on snow. Not enough choices for the poll but for snow and or ice I choose 4wd.
 
Macdaddy4738 said:
Tires, Tires, TIRES!
Found out this time they make the difference. Cherokee on bald ass BFG MT's couldnt get anywhere.
Wrangler on almost perfect BFG AT's, rolled right through the foot of snow piled up behind it, and to the store to get more beer. :beer:
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The tires on my Samurai have very little tread, and consequently it is now sitting down in the woods behind my house pinned up against a few trees on a hill. I guess it is going to sit there until the snow melts, LOL.
 
MY $0.02.
A 4x4 truck with an auto locker in the front is okay in the snow as long as you don't have to turn.
I had a YJ with a power trax in the rear and LSD in the front. There were a few occasions when the locked rear wanted to keep pushing me straight and the snow was just slick enough that the front end started to lose traction while turning. Just backed of the gas on coasted through the turn.
Last Christ we went back to MA for Christmas in our Jeep Patriot. Front drive only edition. It handled that big Christmas storm like a dream. Not once did I wish we had taken my JK Rubicon instead.
The Patriot gets 30MPH highway too.
Next time we go for Christmas we are taking my JK Rubicon now that the build is done. Maybe it will snow again and I can compare the two.
 
Holy old thread batman!!! I drove my 2wd 4runner with BFG All Terains on it all last winter through the big storm we got at Christmas and it did WAY better than my ex wife's FWD minivan. She couldn't get up the hill by her place but the 4runner went right up it. I'm from Colorado and grew up driving in snow (We always had 4wd's) and it even surprised me how well it went. Tires make all the difference.
 
2001 hyundai accent FTW it was crazy how well that car did in the snow
 
Never driven in snow... I can't wait.:driver:.
 
That is hilarious!!!!!!!!

Shawn said:
Wait, wait, wait...
So you start off by qualifying your opinions with a list of snowy states in which you've previously lived, then tell us that your 4wd Jeep with AT rubber handled 6" of snow, no problem? I should hope to hell it did. A fawking 81 Camaro on half-bald all seasons will do all right in 6" of snow if you've got some tire tracks to follow and a bit of weight in the trunk.
I call bullshit on your carefully-documented snow-driving 'experience'.
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It appears you put JEFFB in his place!
 
Oh hey guys, I must have missed the snow driving dick measuring thread before. But, I've never ever been stuck in snow in my life, so there.
 
iluv_mud said:
2001 hyundai accent FTW it was crazy how well that car did in the snow
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I agree on the Hyundai Accent. I have a 97 Accent, and it is the best car Ive ever had in the snow, next to the Grand Wagoneer I had. I spent the first 30 years of my life in Michigan, and I couldnt get that Hyundai stuck, then again, the Grand Waggy would plow through everything like a tank! Its all good, and also depends on how you drive. The first winter I came to NC 10 years or so ago, We got a huge snowstorm here that dumped about 18 inches, and I walked my little Hyundai around scores of stuck cars and 4WD's. One instance there was a Prelude stuck in the middle of a long uphill in a residential neighborhood. I pulled up in line behind this guy and waited a while to see if he was going to get going. I got tired of waiting and just drove right around him and the other cars. Maybe it wasnt the car that got me thrrough, maybe it was the Michigan Plates!
 
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