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My New Jeep
4x4 Cars Discussions about 4x4 cars. The on and off-road four wheel drive vehicle. (rec.autos.4x4)
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Re: My New Jeep -
12-01-2006
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SkyKing49 wrote: Mike Romain wrote: We live in Canada and take our CJ7 and Cherokee out in snow all the time. We off road both winter and summer in them. Both my wife and I worked jobs that require us to be on the road at all hours before the plows hit the roads and I had a 20 mile uphill drive home in the CJ7. Our CJ7 has 'always' gotten us there and back safely, so has our Cherokee. We are also talking off road on trails that are impossible to walk on, but crawling along in 4 low has gotten us out. Jeeps 'shift on the fly' into 4 high at any legal speed and go nice, but they sure don't slow down any nicer than any other vehicle. You have to be careful and learn how to use the gears to slow. True..I have always driven standards and downshifting is better than breaking If you hit the brakes in a part time 4x4, all 4 wheels lock up and you go sideways faster than you can blink. Sometimes shifting to 2 wheel drive is better to slow down, but I like staying in 4x4. Turning left at intersections in ice or slush works better in 2 wheel drive. Why would 2wd be better than 4wd when turning left in those conditions? I would think that 4wd would give better traction. The left turn at an intersection here in North America is a long arc, vs the right turn is a sharp corner. Because of the locked center in 'part time' 4x4, when you turn a corner one wheel has to scuff the ground due to the front wheels physically rolling farther than the back ones. If the snow is heavy or slushy like most salted intersections, this front wheel scuffing can get up on top of the snow or slush and then the Jeep just wants to go straight. Sometimes giving it more gas can pull you around the corner, but I find it better to just shift to 2 wheel drive for going into the turn, then back to 4x4 to power out of the turn. Something to try out, your tires might act differently, I have muds on the CJ7 and AT's on the Cherokee and both do it. Mike |
"problem". I will make sure I check it out when and if the need
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I recommend come first snow you find an empty parking lot to try it out. One good saying for driving in 4x4 is 'to go as slow as you can and as fast as you need to'. I don't know the depth of your tread, but that size in an AT tire will have good traction with some tread depth. They are nice and narrow which grabs the snow the best. Mike 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view! Jan/06 http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2115147590 (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page) SkyKing49 wrote: As stated in one of my previous posts, I am not going to buy any new tires for winter driving. I am not going to use studded tires when I would only need them a couple of times a year. Chains might be an idea otherwise the stock tires will have to do. Are there chains that are VERY easy to get on and off, easy enough for my wife to do it if she is out driving and needs to do it? I bought the Jeep so that my wife and I could drive when most other folks would get stuck. I do not have to go fast, I just need to get there. I am concerned about situations where parts of the road is clear and parts are still snow covered. I will simply put it in 4wd whenever I see snow and take it out when it goes back to dry payment...even if I have to do it every mile. If the Jeep can't handle that, I bought the wrong vehicle. My wife will be using it for work when the weather is bad. I do not want her to hit some snow in 2wd and start spinning around in circles. We have a 1997 Honda Accord that she drives most of the time but if the conditions are like what I described above I am telling her to put it in 4wd even if she has only 50ft of snow to go through before she hits dry payment. She can then take it out of four wheel drive and repeat the process as needed even if she has to do it 100 times on the way to work. This should not hurt the Jeep...at least that is what I have been told. Its just a matter of pulling the lever up and then pushing it down again so if the Jeep can take it I have no worries. Is there any rule against putting it in and out of 4wd in the manner I spoke of earlier or is there a possibility of damaging the Jeep? If there are tech sites that discuss this issue I would appreciate being linked to them. |
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Your top post does not include Wrangler ... adios bozo. |
Pity no one knows who's post you are refering to, adios bozo
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Your top post does not include Wrangler ... adios bozo. |
about a wrangler.
I guess you have to be spoon-fed. You should hang out at some Jeep
Wave forum and check your attitude at the door. Ah...name calling.
You must spend a lot of time at some elementary school playground.
chuckle
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bowgus wrote: Your top post does not include Wrangler ... adios bozo. If you had read the posts and the replies you would have known it was about a wrangler. I guess you have to be spoon-fed. You should hang out at some Jeep Wave forum and check your attitude at the door. Ah...name calling. You must spend a lot of time at some elementary school playground. |
mini-van or a volvo station wagon and gets even crankier every 28 days.
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SkyKing49 proclaimed: bowgus wrote: Your top post does not include Wrangler ... adios bozo. If you had read the posts and the replies you would have known it was about a wrangler. I guess you have to be spoon-fed. You should hang out at some Jeep Wave forum and check your attitude at the door. Ah...name calling. You must spend a lot of time at some elementary school playground. Why do I get the distinct impression that this character really drives a mini-van or a volvo station wagon and gets even crankier every 28 days. |
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