mcb345
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Just thought I’d comment here. After some advice and friendly back and forth between forum members in October I went ahead and skipped the 4wd after finding a 2wd with ELD.
We drove up north to Cleveland and it snowed a foot so I toom the car out today through semi plowed/sloppy roads, safely pushed it a bit and I was more than impressed with how well it handled. I’d swear it could have had snow tires on it but I’m running OEM Hancooks with 29k miles on them and a not great winter rating.
I guess the heavy weight, snow mode and ELD work well enough for me with 2wd. In a parking lot with ice and maybe 6” I could feel the rear want to kick out a bit and a little slippage / possible ELD activation but it still pushed through with ease.
I wouldn’t want to go up a decent incline nor would I attempt hit the roads unplowed with 10+ inches but for anyone down south, you’d be more than fine with 2wd and the heavy duty tow package / ELD with a handful of inches of snow or slop. Throw on some quality all season rubber with a better snow rating (I’ll do that when I replace my all seasons in the future) and you’d have an insanely capable 2wd vehicle.
Just thought I’d mention this.
We drove up north to Cleveland and it snowed a foot so I toom the car out today through semi plowed/sloppy roads, safely pushed it a bit and I was more than impressed with how well it handled. I’d swear it could have had snow tires on it but I’m running OEM Hancooks with 29k miles on them and a not great winter rating.
I guess the heavy weight, snow mode and ELD work well enough for me with 2wd. In a parking lot with ice and maybe 6” I could feel the rear want to kick out a bit and a little slippage / possible ELD activation but it still pushed through with ease.
I wouldn’t want to go up a decent incline nor would I attempt hit the roads unplowed with 10+ inches but for anyone down south, you’d be more than fine with 2wd and the heavy duty tow package / ELD with a handful of inches of snow or slop. Throw on some quality all season rubber with a better snow rating (I’ll do that when I replace my all seasons in the future) and you’d have an insanely capable 2wd vehicle.
Just thought I’d mention this.