AWD vs 4WD... Which is Best?

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In short, awd can monitor and provide different amounts of power to each wheel to provide the most traction. 4wd is a constant power to all wheels.

2:32 is when he gets to the point

For me, I think that the key takeaway is that constant power to all 4 wheels, instead of varying power makes for better off-road slow-speed conditions as opposed to varying power, which is better for high-speed on-road conditions.

Currently, I drive the 2021 Honda CR-V Real Time AWD and no issues in the snow, heavy rain and low to medium volume of mud. It's a great AWD system so far made by Honda.

4x4: off-roaders Awd: soft-roaders

So many words said to explain almost nothing.. you just complicated the difference. If on purpose, great job 👍

I have been amazingly surprised at my 2018 RAV4 AWD and it has gotten me out of two stupid mistakes going where I should not have gone. One sand and one mud. I could literally feel the power dancing between the wheels as needed to pull me through bad stuff. Six to eight inches of loose sand for a quarter mile uphill as once I started down and realized I had no where to turn around until bottom of hill but it pulled up through that will only one quick slip in a turn going back up. Don't think it made one full rotation before adjusting and grabbing. The second time was a dirt path that turned to frame deep mud on me. Got turned around and pulled right out again. I do not recommend these mistakes to anyone, but glad I had a Toyota. Mostly I car camp in desert or in national forests back east and so far so good. Not going to do any rock crawling or mud bogging so I am very happy. Just waiting for some snow but usually hate winter so try to avoid. Give me beach sand over snow any day.

My full size Bronco is four wheel drive with traction lock in front and rear. As long as one tire has grip, I can go

All wheel drive means all wheels move especially the spare tire

Actually 4wd don't lock the front and rear differential unless you have lockers, those can be factory lockers or you can install them in the after market, like ARB lockers or so many different variants, and the lockers you have to active separately from the 4wd system, if you don't have them you won't lock each wheel, the video was great untill I heard that part🤦🏻‍♂️

I have a Subaru and a Cadillac both AWD the caddy has different modes but I absolutely love it

We live in a very mountainous area of north central Washington state. We’re 5 miles from town, (25 miles from the city), on a private road that we have to plow and maintain ourselves. We get 5-7 feet of snow every winter so owning an AWD or 4WD vehicle is a necessity. We put 260# of sandbags over the rear axle of our truck for better traction. We keep our pickup in 4WD for most of the winter. Our Subaru’s are AWD and are the first vehicles that we’ve ever owned that we don’t have to put studded snow tires on in the winter. Prior to buying our Subie’s we drove Toyota’s for 40+ years. Even though they were AWD or 4WD, we still had to put the studded snow tires on during the winter months. With our Subaru’s, we drove on our factory tires year round until they wore out. We now have Michelin Cross Climate 2 tires on both our Outback and Forester. Their Great on dry, wet, slushy and snow covered roads. We have Cooper Discoverer A/T tires on our pickup.

Having spent the last 25 years driving tractor trailers I have some VERY good advice. I have driven over 2,000,000 miles without an accident. I see 4-wheel drives in the ditch every winter. I see two wheel drives(rear too) going right along in 2 feet of snow. I tell you exactly what to do. It’s all about weight on the tires that are engaged. A front wheel drive car goes well in snow because the weight of the engine is right on top of the front wheels that are engaged. A VW Beetle will go well in snow or mud because the engine is in the back right on top of the wheels that are engaged. In other words, if you have a two wheel drive truck spinning in the snow or something then put as much weight as you can get in the bed of it. Same thing with a car. If it’s rear wheel drive and you are stuck or have to drive somewhere then put as much weight as you can in the trunk. Seriously, in a semi if your trailer is empty or you have a light load then you spin and slide. In a semi if you attach to a trailer with 46,500 lbs in it then your truck goes almost like it’s on dry concrete. Ever see 18 wheelers going down the interstate when it’s covered with ice? Those trucks have heavy loads on and know what they’re doing.

1:55 lmao I thought that Audi got a minigun mounted for the second

Well explained video! I live in Colorado, we had knee deep fluffy powder snow and my kid needed to get her friend home from my place. My other kid had a '98 RAV4 which was great in snow as it was AWD and very light and it had some ground clearance. The knee deep snow was thick enough that it sapped the RAV's meager power output. so driving it was pretty simple - lots of throttle to pedal to the metal and steer, as the thick snow did cause the light RAV to wiggle around more than a little. It reminded me of riding my dirt bike at speed in the sand. In those conditions the RAV was very predictable and simply didn't have enough power to get into any real trouble. We got to where we needed to be and a BMW X5 was crabbing sideways in the middle of the road, struggling to go up a hill. Being a dirt bike rider and understanding that momentum is everything in these situations, I passed the Beemer to it's right and on the sidewalk (which was even deeper snow) pedal to the metal and we passed that Beemer like a comet, trailing a giant snow plume as the snow was pure powder. This was great fun and the teenage girls were laughing their asses off at the aggressive/properly driven '98 RAV > BMW X5 antics 😂 Got the girl home and was a legend with my younger daughter. Good times...

now i know when i save up for a ram TRX what I'm actually buying...saved up so far... $4

This should be mentioned. While 4wd does send equal power to all wheels when engaged, the front and rear differential do not apply to this (unless they electrically lock with the 4wd engagement). If a rear or a front wheel is off the ground, the opposing wheel on that axle will not move while the one in the air keeps spinning. So even if your 4wd is pushing though some slippery or unbalanced terrain, don’t expect all wheels to move at the same speed

Which is why I bought a Ridgeline. I'm generally on the road and want something that will get me through a foot and a half of snow in the winter. I also go gopher hunting in the summer and need something that will get me up and down in the coulees and short grass prairie. Otherwise its dump runs and hauling drywall and plywood home. The Ridgeline does all of these things really well and has an intelligent traction vectoring system that I've seen plowing through obstacles with one rear wheel 2 feet off the ground. So yeah, with all that I have no need to continually feed a thirsty 5.7L V-8 just to haul my butt around Calgary and area. Besides that the independent 4 wheel suspension ensures a much more comfortable ride for the 90% of the time that it will be in the city or on a highway.Time to enjoy all that brilliant tech under the dashboard. I'm not hauling an RV the size of a Greyhound Bus across Canada, but I could easlly haul two motorcycle and a quad (My bike 850lbs, my son's bike 600lbs, a Honda Rubicon 520: 700lbs, 10 foot trailer 1000lbs - total 3150lbs) and still have another 1850lbs worth of gear left to haul without even touching the in-vehicle payload (another 1530lbs). So, when I was researching a replacement for my much-missed 2018 Ram Longhorn, I had to be honest with myself exactly how much truck I actually needed. After 30 years in Agriculture I've driven them all and to be honest, choosing the Ridgeline, an AWD Unibody was an easy choice. For those of you who "just can't do it", I understand. There's lots of cramped, harsh-riding, loud mid-sized 4 wheel drive body-on-frame trucks for you. Btw I do not in any way work for Honda although I did own a CR-V in the past and that was also bullet proof.

I've got a lift kit and 32x10.5 M/T tires on my AWD Volvo XC60, and it's been absolutely fantastic on sand.