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Re: 4x4 with no limited slip?
<dc.nc@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:1160320920.415093.181920@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> I'm looking at a 2006 4x4, 4 cylinder, manual, with SR5 package. This
> does not have limited slip, and is not an option.
>
> I live in southern Calif so seldom see rain or snow. Several times a
> year I might go to the ski areas, but then you primarily have fresh
> snow, and I'm just on the roads.
>
> The main reason I'm looking at 4x4 is to go to hiking areas. Most of
> the areas I visit only require high clearance, but the occassion road
> is rated as recommended for 4x4.
>
> So my needs are driving in fresh snow on roads, and on the easy end of
> off-road 4x4. It seems that even the TRD package does not have limited
> slip either, so given that I don't go on really crazy roads, I assume I
> would be ok without the limited slip or the locker that the TRD does
> have.
>
> Do I have this right?[/color]
If you have RWD and a manual trans, there are not too many places you
*can't* go. 4WD is only to get you out of a mess that you made when you were
someplace you probably shouldn't have been in the first place.
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