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ethanfoster

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I am looking to get new car in the fall, right now i have a single cab half ton truck which is a terrible winter car, im try to decide betweena sation wagon or a big suv, what would you guys say?
 
Disagree. Long wheel base and 2wd at most times can be very dangerous in snow. I think an awd suv or outback type car is better for snowy conditions. My 2008 gmc Denali xlt has gotten me through everything but I would not get one of those cause all the gauges and ac and shit stop working
 
I was thinking he wanted lots of space when he said big truck or suv. If you're just hauling 1-4 people an outback or impress will be the best choice. Just get a Thule or rack
 
I beg to differ, a truck in 4wd with proper tires will do fine. I find it the perfect ski vehicle for the reasons TWA stated.

a good suv is a 4-runner, they will never die and run strongly. you get lots of room, and 4wd.

to the idiot who said trucks cant go over 20mph in 4wd, that is completely false. you can go however fast you want in 4wd.

I would never buy an AWD vehicle, I hate how you can feel the front tires griping in every turn.
 
Subaru Forester with the largest THULE ski rack. Get the fuck out of here if you disagree. Get at me if you need more details.
 
honestly, i had an '01 honda crv for a few years and never got stuck. i drove it through 2 feet of snow to almost a foot of mud. only accident i was ever in was going down a hill in the winter and tried to stop on a sheet of ice and slid into a telephone pole, only damaged the bumper. its a pretty solid vehicle
 
I have an '08 4runner that's pretty boss in the snow. I'm not to crazy about the look of the newer models though.
 
I Have a 4 door Jeep wrangler sahara, Ive tried to get it stuck and I haven't yet. In the winter with the hardtop you can put a thule 300 on it to hold skis. great vehicle and very easy to repair
 
your on crack my truck easily goes 55 in 4wd. dude for real get a new truck you wont regret it. i just got an 03 chevy avalanche and it is a boss truck.
 
It depends on the 4wd system. Trucks like, for example, a pre '96 4Runner only have a transfer case for the 4WD system, with no centre differential, so if you drive them on surfaces that aren't reasonably slippery and go around corners it can't differentiate the speed of the front and rear wheels and it will bind and buck and be a general asshole of a thing.

Most newer 4WD systems have the transfer case feeding a centre differential so this isn't really a problem. If you have locking hubs etc then the same issues apply with not being able to handle different wheel speed at each corner of the car.

I have 2 ski vehicles... a '92 4Runner (actually a Surf) which is great because I can just throw everything in and it's beat to shit so if someone dents it in the carpark, no big deal. The other is a 2001 Impreza STI, Subaru's AWD system is pretty damn good in the snow, I've never had to put chains on it.

I dunno if you get them in the states but the Toyota Landcruiser VX Limited is roomy, tough as hell and should go for about 400k miles without issues.
 
any truck ive seen that has a decent body has ridiculas miles, and i spent a ton of money on gas last season so im hoping for something smaller so i gues the big suv is out
 
So you're set on a truck? I don't see why you wouldn't get a Subaru out back and stick a Thule on it. It has less space but much better gas mileage and it will be better in the snow + subarus last forever
 
Why not get the only small SUV with *no rollover rating* like the Subaru Forester. It's built on a sedan (Impreza) floor pan, and has tons of room. With a THULE on deck, you would be unstoppable. AWD, limited slip differentials, good ground clearance. You can't go wrong.
 
if you want a truck just go on craigslist and be patient the right one will show up my truck only cost 10k and had 90,000 miles on it. spend the extra $350 and put a throttle body spacer and a cold air intake on it and it will run smooth for a long time and you will get great gas mileage. My truck is lifted and is on 35's but i get 17-18 mpg in the city and about 22-23 on the highway
 
i have a mazda tribute and it mobs through the snow. its AWD but i give its credit to the tires, theyre real beefy. most 4wd cars will do well as long as you dont cheap out and dont put good tires on it
 
Fuck no. I had that exact set up, now I have a truck and I would NEVER go back.

As for 4WD, well there are plenty of people who don't need it. A truck is not useless without 4WD. A skier however, is not one of those people. Get a 4WD truck, good tires and you are set. No racks, no getting stuck, cheap parts, easy to work on. Subaru forester is basically opposite (I had an older one to be fair)

And to the guy who said you gotta keep it under 20mph in 4wd if you have a transfer case. You gotta keep it in 2wd whenever the roads are dry. Speed isn't really a factor. If you drive your truck around in 4WD on dry pavement you are gonna get wound up. Probably would would actually happen faster going slow because you can make sharper turns. Just keep it in 2WD unless you are in deep snow or mud and need it. Better than AWD which is always there when you don't really need it, and then when you are in a situation where you need 4WD, it's not as good.
 
When you're truck isn't in 4wd good luck driving it in the snow haha but it s very fun and 4wd in a truck works just fine in snow I just feel better with an awd subaru or suv
 
you're cool. i bet that's gona help you when you're driving in snow. and i call bullshit. pics or it didnt happen
 
get a truck brah, 12-16 mpg at 4.00 per gallon is nothin. plus u will look wayyyyyyy badass in a truck, and you can haul more shit than people and you will have lots of friends because when people move you will be the first one they call!

 
You kinda hack me off eh. You're like 16, you act like you're some shit hot gods gift to everything when it's quite obvious that this is not the truth. Obviously in this case you've probably been driving for a maximum of about 6 months and chances are, despite what you think, you're not very good at it. Even your comments display that really, you're pretty ignorant in these matters.

Race driving teaches things like threshold braking and how to handle things like understeer and oversteer, should they occur... both of which cars can be prone to in snow. And driving fast on gravel (rally driving) is actually a pretty good analog for driving slowly on snow.

In a grander sense, you talk a lot of shit on gear that I'm 99% sure you've never tried. You also tend to talk about it like you're some big mountain charger who weighs 190 and makes Seth Morrison look like a pussy. I've watched your 'edits' if we're going to call them that and I was pretty gentle when I commented about them previously. Some of them are pretty damn gapish, let's be honest. I think the biggest trick you throw in any of them is a sketchy 180 off a windlip.

There's a lot of people out there who are a lot better at a lot of things than you are. And the faster you realise that, the faster people will stop thinking you're a gigantic spanner.
 
Last time I talked to him he was 15 soooo... And he's 6 foot and skis 179 hellbents but yea I've loved rally because you never know exactly what's gonna happen on whatever type of surface you are on, ive mainly learned how to move the car through corners and use its weight to get you there. Unlike all types of racing on asphalt in rally you break once you start turning idk I have a ton of fun with it
 
bro why are you alwaya picking on me for same shit. i bet it makes you feel real good. in just sharing my opinion when you have no idea who i am and what my gear experience is
 
As long as you have sandbags then a truck will work great. I have a Ford Ranger 4x4 and it works great in the snow
 
Because your opinion, a lot of the time, is clearly meaningless drivel. In this thread you agreed with another member that if someone didn't like trucks in the snow then they couldn't drive for shit.

Please enlighten me about your vast experience in driving different types of vehicle in the snow. I have pretty good grounds (i.e. you being all of 16) to suspect that you've driven 1, maybe 2 vehicles in snow, a couple of times, not very far. The same probably goes, relatively speaking, for your overall driving. Hence you aren't qualified to talk shit on another member's opinion about vehicles snow driving ability, which means your opinion, in this instance, like so many other instances, is uneducated misleading shit-talking post-count-whoring pissing in the wind, bordering on straight up bullshit. Like when you said Griffons were sweet for people hitting 30ft cliffs because you're a sponsored comp rider and 30ft aint shit to you. Remember that?
 
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