Is it a Subaru thing, or a people thinking that 4x4 or AWD makes them invincible thing?

 

Usually, its the other way around. Folks in their big four by fours cruising along at 70 in the snow and ice....... Four wheel drive may help you accelerate better in the slop, but it sure as hell isn't going to help you slow down any faster. Well, not until you hit the Subaru at any rate.

Its hilarious around here.... first couple snows, all you see are four bys' in the ditch.

 

Glad you ok and the truck is fixable, but lately I have been noticing people just dont pay attention when they drive and im amazed by some of the accidents I have seen lately, before it was old cars running into new cars, now its the other way around, I just want to know how a brand new charger rear ends an early 90's minivan and that hits a frontier, people need to learn how to pay a-F^cking-tention to the road

 

Thats just like how some people think that 4x4 makes you stop better in snow. Heard that on the weather channel last winter.

 

My theory on 4x4 is that it helps you get traction to take off, gets you out of most sticky situations that you might get stuck in while driving the truck, but all four wheels spin just the same on ice whether 4 wheel drive is engaged or not..... Some people just don't get it and some people shouldn't be on the road.... Around here in the area I live in in Michigan, 4x4's are the first ones in the ditch as well and the drivers are ususally cocky sob's who don't understand how they ended up in the ditch with their 4x4...... just makes me smirk as I drive by in my 4x4 driving for the weather conditions.

 

I've had my share of morons try and do similar acts of stupidity. However, once I got the train horns put it... I give them something to think about. I love those things... people actually hear them (unlike the stock horn).

 

its called down shifting my friend, although if you come in too hot for the lower gear and the road is slick enough you can lock up all four tires and slide down the ride sideways then over a stop sign into your best friends lawn not that i know from experience or anything hehe

 

I just got hit by a women that was alive during the Roosevelt administration, really messed my truck up, dodges are tough but they just cant hang with an early 70s chevy 3/4 ton van. At least subarus are made of plastic not 12 gauge steel, she didnt even know she hit me.

 

Problem is people don't think. If one tire locks up in 4x4, then they all lock up and in to a slide you go. I was driving to work one day in really bad snow weather and this 1990~ish Dodge Dakota coming in the opposite direction was going to fast, slide across my lane and right in the ditch. Thankfully he didn't hit anyone. I rolled up and broke out the tow chain to pull him out. He was all like, "And that was in 4x4 too". I didn't say anything like, "That doesn't mean you can drive like a moron" but I was sure thinking about it.

 

Driving to work one day (a 35 mile commute at the time...), there is one section of road that goes thru a corner of another county. Its less than half a mile long, so, that country doesn't really maintain it very well. We had gotten about a foot of snow overnight... and then freezing rain. When I came into view of that section of road, I had thought that some giant child had tossed his cars all over the place. There were at least a dozen cars/trucks sitting varying distances off the roadway. I made about 200 bucks in an hour pulling folks back onto the road.......