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Clicking on the Submit button above is your electronic signature. My Vehicles Select 1 more to compare Compare Vehicles. Please Select a Section to Skip to. Toggle navigation. Home New Vehicles New Vehicles. Pre-Owned Vehicles. Find A Dealer. You typically get three settings with an all-wheel drive.
Sticking with Auto: This default setting offers convenience by automatically switching from two-wheel drive to four-wheel drive when one of the wheels starts to slip, such as on a hill or slippery areas.
Four-wheel drive locks the speed of the front and rear axles together, meaning that the wheel with the least traction can spin only as fast as its counterpart on the other axle. This doubles your traction. Because the front and rear axles need to spin at different speeds on the road, you should activate 4WD only when your tires leave the pavement.
That might be turning onto a dirt road or entering consistently snowy conditions, where the road surface is completely covered. Four-wheel drive doubles traction in slippery conditions, but it also requires slippery conditions to work safely. Even on simple dirt roads, locking the speed of the front and rear axles together will help you climb hills most effectively and descend them safely the speed of the axles is locked while braking, too and make crossing obstacles as easy on your vehicle as possible.
Just make sure you switch out of it before returning to pavement. Some older vehicles may require you to manually engage the front wheel hubs before shifting into 4WD. If this is the case, you can freely shift into and out of 4WD with them engaged, and it is safe to drive on the road in 2WD with them engaged, but doing so while amplify wear on them.
So, you can leave the hubs engaged for a short section of pavement, but disengage them before hitting the highway to drive home. Gears multiply the force your engine is able to exert on your wheels. You see this every time you drive—your truck accelerates faster in first gear than it does in fifth. Low-range gears exaggerate this effect by multiplying torque to a far greater degree. But as you know from using your transmission on the road, the lower the gear, the lower its maximum speed.
The process for engaging and disengaging 4WD varies from vehicle to vehicle. Up Next. Anxious about driving on snowy roads over the holidays?
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