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View Poll Results: How often do you use your 4wd?
Never used it
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5.81%
1-5 times per year
19
22.09%
6-11 times per year
19
22.09%
1-3 times per month
24
27.91%
1-3 times per week
14
16.28%
All the time at least 4 times a week
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5.81%
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Old Oct 1, 2003 | 09:45 PM
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Using your 4wd

Just wondering how often you guys use your 4wd.

The neighbor just bought a new Avalanch Z71. I asked him why he needed 4wd and when the last time he used it, and he could not remember. He figured It had been over 2 years

Just a note, I use mine about 1-2 times per week
 

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Old Oct 1, 2003 | 10:32 PM
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I like to go down the level b roads once in a while.
 
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Old Oct 1, 2003 | 10:38 PM
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i use and abuse my 4x4
 
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Old Oct 1, 2003 | 10:42 PM
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fresh 400 in now to start my build up into the perfect truck. 400 Right! the truck looks nice in mini pic though.
My 4wd has been abused so i have to take it easy and some componets need replaced.
 
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Old Oct 1, 2003 | 10:46 PM
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what do you mean 400 right? check out the gallery for more pics, thanks for the complement. i think.
 
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Old Oct 1, 2003 | 10:55 PM
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i was talking crap about the 400. Nothing wrong with them though. I have a 390 but its currently broke so what the hell do i have to say . Hey where you from in iowa.
 
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Old Oct 1, 2003 | 10:58 PM
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My truck isn't a 4x4, but her Tracker is. We only use it in the snow on the uncleared roads. Guess you could call it a concrete cowboy. or cowgirl as it is her truck.
 
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Old Oct 1, 2003 | 10:59 PM
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the 400 works for me, everyone has their preference. i live in Urbandale Iowa, but currently staying in Boone Iowa. where are you from?
 
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Old Oct 1, 2003 | 11:02 PM
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i live in the small hick town of Onslow. About 35 miles northeast of ceder rapids. I think pward76 lives in urbandale also. I like the motor after seeing the pics. I figures the best truck would have a 460 in it but i like all the ford sb. Yeah i'm curious hows dmacc reputation out there?
 

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Old Oct 1, 2003 | 11:04 PM
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I use my 4 wheel drive when ever I need it. I don't count the number of times. I used 4 low just yesterday pulling a stump outta the ground. I don't go looking for the deepest mudhole I can find and don't look for the unbeatable hill to climb, I take each as I get to them and decide then... getting too old and can't afford to be breaking the new beast I have, compared to my older 4x4s and when I was younger and more daring. I still do things during hunting season that makes my best friends hair turn a tad greyer though.
 
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Old Oct 1, 2003 | 11:15 PM
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84 B-II I use it but don't really abuse it. I haven't flipped it yet, I haven't drowned it. I have stuck it in the snow but a winch fixed that. It's just a necessity where I live and work in order to get to some of the jobs that I work on.
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Old Oct 1, 2003 | 11:46 PM
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about 1-2 times a week in the summer and every day in the winter

and i like to go do some trail's on weekend's in the summer and winter
 
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Old Oct 1, 2003 | 11:50 PM
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i once visited my aunt and uncle in anchorage. It was pretty damn cool i went in the summer. The not getting dark threw me off a bit but I actually saw reigndeer up there. A hell of a place for an outdoorsmen.
 
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Old Oct 2, 2003 | 01:26 AM
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it must have been early or late summer cause in the sun this summer i recorded the temp at 114...
 
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Old Oct 2, 2003 | 10:08 AM
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We camp alot,as well as any other outside activity we can find, so the 4wd is the weapon of choice, besides, the winters here change the roads to sheets of ice, and the snow sometimes gets pretty deep, so 4wd or at the least, front wheel drive. So at least 3 times a week in the summer and 24/7 in the winter.
 
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