1st Time- Glare Ice!!!!
1st Time- Glare Ice!!!!
I finally got the chance to check out how this thing handles on glare ice this morning going into work!!!! This thing is a BEAST! It handles almost as well as if the roads were just wet. The anti-locks screamed a little coming to a stop a few times, and I lost traction going up a short grade in 2wd, at 50 mph, just reached down, dropped in 4wheel high, away it went. Sounds crazy, and I never had this much confidence in my old Dakota. It did like to slide around a lot--even with weight in the back. Almost makes me look forward to this again--no wait! somebody slap me, did I really say that?
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I finally got the chance to check out how this thing handles on glare ice this morning going into work!!!! This thing is a BEAST! It handles almost as well as if the roads were just wet. The anti-locks screamed a little coming to a stop a few times, and I lost traction going up a short grade in 2wd, at 50 mph, just reached down, dropped in 4wheel high, away it went. Sounds crazy, and I never had this much confidence in my old Dakota. It did like to slide around a lot--even with weight in the back. Almost makes me look forward to this again--no wait! somebody slap me, did I really say that?
I finally got the chance to check out how this thing handles on glare ice this morning going into work!!!! This thing is a BEAST! It handles almost as well as if the roads were just wet. The anti-locks screamed a little coming to a stop a few times, and I lost traction going up a short grade in 2wd, at 50 mph, just reached down, dropped in 4wheel high, away it went. Sounds crazy, and I never had this much confidence in my old Dakota. It did like to slide around a lot--even with weight in the back. Almost makes me look forward to this again--no wait! somebody slap me, did I really say that?
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Glad the truck worked out on ice but just remember 4WD=4Wslide when on ice. I've driven my Jeeps enough on the ice storms we get in Dallas to learn that. Of course we have not had one of those in a looooooong time.
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I'll second what everyone has said. Just be careful as nobody is immune to the effects of physics, especially Newton's 'an object in motion stays in motion until acted on by another force!'
just be careful.
just be careful.
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I am actually a little scared of driving this beast in the snow/ice. After driving my 98 Jeep wrangler for almost 8 years, this gigantic truck worries me a little bit. I was getting on an onramp for the highway a couple weeks ago and there was a little frost on the road. I didn't even really hit the gas and I could feel the *** end want to break away. Do you guys weight the back end of your truck down with sand bags or something? I saw a rubber bladder type thing that gives you an extra 400 lbs in the styling concepts magazine, was thinking about that.
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I weight mine down. Last winter I used about 8 60# tubes of sand, and will probably add a few more this winter and it helps. They're only like $2.69 or something like that at Home Depot.
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Thanks dad! LOL...... Either way slippery stuff is fun as hell to drive in. I had mine out on Thanksgiving, in 4WD HI, cranked the wheel, and was doing donuts like a AWD WRX (not a 2WD truck). You never learn the true potential, or become confident with your vehicle unless you fool around a lil bit. Thats why we have sports like rock crawling, LOL.
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RE: 1st Time- Glare Ice!!!!
Thanks for all the support everyone!!!!! As a small consolation. I didn't put this in my original post, The bed has almost 1000 lbs in it, between the sand bags and the new cap.
I learned a long time ago about more weight equals more traction but in reverse it also equals more mass going straight. slow---up, slow---down.
I learned a long time ago about more weight equals more traction but in reverse it also equals more mass going straight. slow---up, slow---down.
