Now that winter is here, Do you have any good rough weather Ram stories? I am in the North East and I have'nt really needed to put it in 4x4 much. I am very happy with the "Anti-Slip" rear end. It seems to do the job in 3" of snow range.

 

2005 Ram 1500
Quad Cab
Hemi 4x4 w/ LSD
36k miles on odometer

Gotabout 2 inches ofice/snow late last week here in upstate South Carolina, and the OEM Goodyear 265/70/R17's held up just fine. I'm not one to hotdog around town when it is slick out (unless I'm alone in aparking lot ), but 4x4 with LSD took me up every nasty hill I needed to climb.

Vehicles that didn't make it around here were typicallyolder Honda Civics (probably had bad/no tread on the tires) and large Suburbans or Expeditionswithout 4x4 or LSD. The Suburban I saw actually started sliding backwards down the hill, so everybody drove around him as he was slipping back down the hill. I also saw some lady in a brand new Toyota Sequoia hit the Interstate divider wall, but that wasonly because she didn't know how to drive on slick pavement.

 

The one blizzard we got me and 4 buddies were out on the backroads (RURAL ND)and went into the ditch. We were bored which was why we were out and it was drifting pretty bad, hard to tell how wide the road was. Go too close to the edge and it sucked me right in, punched it and made it through out into an openfield, got as much of a run at the ditch as i could to attempt to get back up onto the road, went plowing through the ditch again, front wheels made it to the road but the back wheels stayed in the ditch. Drove sideways like that for about 50 yards or so (im guessing) then the front end eventually swung down into the ditch and it was Game Over. Called afriends brotherand he came and yanked me out. Thank god i had installed a set of recovery hooks on the front (ones slightly bent now) as it was the only way i was getting out without a tractor. Wild ride