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Old 07-06-2021, 10:35 AM   #11
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Default Re: 4 wheel or 2 wheel drive??

I'm just impressed you can find a new 3/4 ton for sale. Around here they are very rare this year.
I would get the 4 wheel drive for resale and for the few times you may need it while towing. I use mine on the 1/4 mile of hilly gravel road between my house and black top.
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Old 07-06-2021, 11:09 AM   #12
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I have owned both 4WD and 2WD Ram trucks.
Unless you live in a place that snows a lot, I will get a 2WD.
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Old 07-06-2021, 11:55 AM   #13
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Default Re: 4 wheel or 2 wheel drive??

I tow an open trailer and the bed is 'stuffed' with extra stuff. Had a 2wd and went to 4wd, never use the 4wd, but the heavier suspension etc. worth the lower gas mileage, tows / stops sooo much better.
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Old 07-06-2021, 01:42 PM   #14
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Default Re: 4 wheel or 2 wheel drive??

To me it's the Front End or the Back End. Spend 4 $4000. more for the 4 wheel package and get the $4000.00 back at the back end if you sell the truck. Same goes for the 2 wheel drive , you will spend $4000.00 less for a two wheel drive and get $4000.00 less when you sell it. To me if you don't need the 4 wheel for Winter driving then stick with the two wheel package. There are still plenty of buyers out there who will buy a two wheel package. JMO.
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Old 07-06-2021, 02:31 PM   #15
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Default Re: 4 wheel or 2 wheel drive??

I'd never buy a 2 wheel drive living in NJ even if I never used the truck in winter.

I bought a new GMC in '96 and got stuck in the mud at Maple Grove as soon as I puled in the grass field. A 454 4x4
I had to unload the race car just to get out and covered my new truck and trailer with mud in the process.

Replaced that truck with a Duramax and it's a 4 wheel drive and my daily driver...

One trip coming home from Cecil with the Duramax I was losing a rear U-Joint....barely made it home.....

With a 4x4 I could have pulled the rear driveshaft and made it home in 4 wheel drive.......Not likely that would ever happen but in my case it almost did.....

I was looking at trucks a few months ago....2500 HD 4x4 6.? gas ext cab long bed......$50G's and up

My good friend bought one and a co worker also bought one .....Chevy....
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Old 07-07-2021, 01:55 AM   #16
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Default Re: 4 wheel or 2 wheel drive??

I vote for 4WD

I have owned them all and Mileage Difference
was noticeable.
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Old 07-07-2021, 08:48 AM   #17
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Default Re: 4 wheel or 2 wheel drive??

In the late 80's I took an '88 Chevy 3/4 ton suburban 4 WD and built a "pulling BBC" for it. Pulled a 24 ft enclosed. I kept it till '93 and the one & only time I used 4 WD pulling was when I had my trailer in the yard beside my driveway and my back tires were off the concrete. I did use 4wd on some camping & motorcycle trips in the Ozarks. That is the last 4 wd I've had.
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Old 07-28-2021, 08:34 AM   #18
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I tow an open trailer and the bed is 'stuffed' with extra stuff. Had a 2wd and went to 4wd, never use the 4wd, but the heavier suspension etc. worth the lower gas mileage, tows / stops sooo much better.
It doesn't work that way.

All things being equal, 4WD REDUCES a truck's payload capacity- 2WD and 4WD versions of the same truck will have the same GVWR, but the 4WD truck will weigh more, which means less payload capacity.
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Old 07-28-2021, 08:50 AM   #19
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Default Re: 4 wheel or 2 wheel drive??

Although many people WANT 4WD, nearly everyone can get by without it.

2WD is less expensive to buy, simpler, has less to go wrong, less to maintain, less to repair, easier to work on, less depreciation, greater payload, greater fuel mileage, better acceleration, smoother ride, and in many cases less expensive to insure and register.

My wife and I recently faced this decision, and purchased a new 2WD truck with the optional electronic locking rear axle. We actually use it for off-roading, but not the kind of off-roading that would require 4WD. We installed larger BFG All-Terrain tires on a set of 17" Method Racing wheels, a "shorty" performance exhaust system, a pair of Deaver rear leaf springs, and got in line for a 10-month wait for a $3,500 set of adjustable King 2.5 rear shocks and front ride height adjustable coilovers, both with reservoirs.

A few months ago, before we bought our truck, we rode out the worst snow storm in 40 years here, which helped us with our decision after we realized that we didn't actually have to go anywhere when there is snow on the roads. And when the snow turned to ice, all the vehicles we saw stuck in the ditches, were 4WD.

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