For all you 1st-time AWD owners,,,,,,

[Hot Runr Guy]

Don't be this guy,,,



https://www.yahoo.com/autos/speeding-subaru-wrx-gets-wrecked-210000123.html

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[dalola]

AWD doesn't fix stupid.

 

[CajunMick]

My Mav has AWD feature. I don’t care for it, nor a 4 wheel drive setup. Don’t intend to do any AWD or 4 wheeler schemes. But unfortunately when shopping for Mav, this puppy was available. So bite bullet, got it with AWD. And disappointed can’t turn it off.

As for this video of driver crashing into the truck, he obviously some kind of hurry, passing on a snowy/iced road. But his action reminds me of our local drivers who tries to take my back and front bumper off when passing, even on dry road on a clear day. And if one honks at these passers, they get angry. Some kind of hurry. Insensible hurries….get in accident, they had it coming.

 

[Automan21]

All wheel drive ain’t all wheel stop. Some people don’t know the limits of their vehicle or their skill.
I had the same subie and friends who saw that vid last year on the news thought it was me and started calling lol

 

[Cherokee]

I needed AWD to make the climb easier up to my cabin when the gravel roads are dry. Dry makes the gravel move like ball bearings on my steepest sections.
Several here have FWD only and are fine unless it's super dry and loose or they got something in the back of their truck or car like groceries or truck stuff. The added stability of my AWD on slick winter roads makes a world of difference. I have many days I have to leave my FWD Escape at home.

 

[Bil13h]

The only advantage of awd is that you start going faster

Your brakes and tires are what decide where you can go and how fast you can stop

What do I know, though, I'm just a Canadian that has always had 4wd/awd but finds 0 reason to dislike my fwd hybrid

 

[Scout]

Out my way we call idiots like that organ donors.

 

[Joe Strummer]

Would be interested to know if the insurance company said: CLAIM DENIED?

 

[Scott Asheville]

This has nothing to do with AWD. That's a false association. It has to do with poor judgment, which in my 50 years on the road has proven to be universally and evenly distributed across the driving population and all vehicle types. And that includes me and you. We all do stupid once or twice and maybe thrice in our lives.

Oh, and this thread is patronizing and sanctimonious to the extreme.

 

[Mark’s Mav]

My Mav has AWD feature. I don’t care for it, nor a 4 wheel drive setup. Don’t intend to do any AWD or 4 wheeler schemes. But unfortunately when shopping for Mav, this puppy was available. So bite bullet, got it with AWD. And disappointed can’t turn it off.

As for this video of driver crashing into the truck, he obviously some kind of hurry, passing on a snowy/iced road. But his action reminds me of our local drivers who tries to take my back and front bumper off when passing, even on dry road on a clear day. And if one honks at these passers, they get angry. Some kind of hurry. Insensible hurries….get in accident, they had it coming.

Why do you not like AWD? It’s there if you need it such as driving on a slippery slope, getting in a muddy situation even in your yard or when it snows. It doesn’t work unless it needs to. You don’t even know it’s there and cost you very little mpg.

 

[CajunMick]

Why do you not like AWD? It’s there if you need it such as driving on a slippery slope, getting in a muddy situation even in your yard or when it snows. It doesn’t work unless it needs to. You don’t even know it’s there and cost you very little mpg.

Everything you saying is true, no doubt. But my preference is 2 wheel drive, with fewer components to deal with. So, I do have a AWD truck now.

 

[Ken L]

The only advantage of awd is that you start going faster

Your brakes and tires are what decide where you can go and how fast you can stop

What do I know, though, I'm just a Canadian that has always had 4wd/awd but finds 0 reason to dislike my fwd hybrid

word for word x2, from Alliston area. And you can get snow that most people on this forum won't believe. I've been stuck once with the awd CRB OVER the highway. 1 1\2 lanes plowed, on coming car and had to move right, bought on snow plus rift and... all 4 wheels 4 inches above the pavement, spinning.
Ken

 

[Eggflipper]

Same holds true for four wheel drive. Once you start to slide, you still do not have ice brakes. Snowed here in upper Massachusetts yesterday. And yes, people still drive as if it is July 7th.​

 

[Meeka]

The only advantage of awd is that you start going faster

Your brakes and tires are what decide where you can go and how fast you can stop

What do I know, though, I'm just a Canadian that has always had 4wd/awd but finds 0 reason to dislike my fwd hybrid

Here where I live, the first fair sized snowfall of the winter you always see Subaru’s and 4x4 trucks in the ditch. Not the vehicle, but overconfident drivers!

 

[Bil13h]

word for word x2, from Alliston area. And you can get snow that most people on this forum won't believe. I've been stuck once with the awd CRB OVER the highway. 1 1\2 lanes plowed, on coming car and had to move right, bought on snow plus rift and... all 4 wheels 4 inches above the pavement, spinning.
Ken

Yeah I'm over in collingwood but grew up on blue, we've had 7ft between sun down and back up one night when I was a kid, literally had to shovel out from inside the kitchen door because there was less there than any other way out. The last few years we haven't had anything a little over 2' in a night, but i also don't live up top anymore, or I'd have 4x4 to actually get through real snow

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