4runner Did Amazing in 20" of snow

eskimochaos · 2009-12-21T00:56:49+00:00

Got the first storm of the season and was able to test out the new KO's in the snow. We got around 8" where I live but went to visit my grandparents where they got 20+" The car was actually unstoppable with the center diff locked. I parked in a parking spot with 3ft snow drifts and pulled in and out w/o issue with the center diff locked. I noted that even though the car did awesome in 4hi w/o the center locked, I could literally drive through anything with it locked. I think that in the snow, the VSC system is just too touchy. Im going to drive around tomorrow for fun and hopefully take some pics. It was a blast and the new meats performed incredibly. I dunno if the Dunlops could have gotten me where I found myself today; however, I dont have a baseline to go off of.

Thread starter eskimochaos
Start date Dec 21, 2009

offshorebear

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Dec 23, 2009

The hitch isn't going to fall off from 200 pounds. The carrier acts like a lever arm so there is a big moment about the bumper, but its a truck; its fine.

A 7000 pound trailer weight will have about 700 pounds tongue weight, to put things in perspective. A V6 towing 5000 pounds will have around 500 pounds tongue weight.