Re: is a 4 wheel needed?
You don't need bad weather or go off road to need a 4 wheel drive. When we went to Yellowstone State Park from Curtis S. Dakota, we went up the Big Horn pass while they had it torn up and rerouting it. The road was so rough, we had to crawl it at 3-8 mph. My transmission was in and out of 1st and 2nd gear, and the torque converter would not lock up due to the slow road speed. My transmission over heated and we had no place to pull over at all. I wound up just stopping in the middle of the road and putting it in 4 wheel low, put it in drive and off we went again. With in a mile the transmission cooled down and the alarm shut off. Drove about 8 miles in low. The long and short of it, if it were not for the 4 wheel low, I most likely would have burnt up my transmission and broke down blocking a one lane road until towed out. It is nice not to need the 4 wheel drive, but sure handy to have it.