4H or 4L

[BlackRook]

In Alaska, where our roads look like this for 8 months (if we're lucky), 2H WITH Blizzaks

This is really the correct answer. Snow tires and a little caution, and just about anything will get through those conditions. Check out what a rear drive wagon did in NYC last winter:

https://jalopnik.com/you-dont-need-all-wheel-drive-in-the-snow-1821806245

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[MNWrangx2]

2H. That's a dusting of snow and it's Wisconsin no? Save your 4H and 4L for the deep stuff.

Agreed - from a MN driver.

 

[AK0311]

This is really the correct answer. Snow tires and a little caution, and just about anything will get through those conditions. Check out what a rear drive wagon did in NYC last winter:

https://jalopnik.com/you-dont-need-all-wheel-drive-in-the-snow-1821806245

That is the old Alaska I grew up in. Now with all the imported Texas and Florida drivers I keep seeing, I run in 4H if anything is on the pavement besides water so when I step on a pedal, I get instant response to my input. Be it braking or accelerating to keep from getting hit. If I was the only vehicle on that road, as long as it wasn't like Anchorage this morning, I'd run 2H. I woke up to freezing rain overnight on top of the wet snow from early yesterday. Anchorages main roads are great, but the side/neighborhood streets are iced up (at least at 9am they were). I ran4H to and from my appointment this morning.

 

[Titan2727]

2H or 4H??!

...4L and take a short cut through the woods

 

[NavyVet1959]

It's always seemed to me that front wheel drive was often best in light snow / ice than rear wheel drive. Well, at least up to the point where you actually needed all four wheels providing power. I wish Jeep would make it so that you could choose whether you wanted to be operating in front or rear wheel drive while in 2WD mode.

 

[KDB]

I'm from Wisconsin as well and used 2H on my 2 door JK for snow. Only used 4H when having issues in deeper crud and keeping the vehicle on the road. Best part of Jeep ownership in WI is getting out BEFORE the plows when feet of snow are on the ground and "playing"

Looking forward to first snow with the JL as well

 

[wibornz]

In MIchigan, we drive 80+ mph on that amount of snow in every kind of vehicle.

 

[NavyVet1959]

In MIchigan, we drive 80+ mph on that amount of snow in every kind of vehicle.

We might get that amount of snow every 20 years or so and people around here will also drive 80+ mph on it...

And having likely never driven in ice or snow, it often has a predictable outcome...

I actually *like* for it to happen so that I can sit back, drink a beer, and watch all the accidents...

 

[XJ-99]

We might get that amount of snow every 20 years or so and people around here will also drive 80+ mph on it...

And having likely never driven in ice or snow, it often has a predictable outcome...

I actually *like* for it to happen so that I can sit back, drink a beer, and watch all the accidents...

^^^^
You can pretty much predict that wherever snow falls. I remember driving through Salt Lake (a place where you think they would know how to drive in snow) in a 2wd pick-up truck during a blizzard and counting all the 4x4's in the ditch. Must have been at least a dozen or so stuck and abandoned in the median or off to the side of the freeway.

 

[wibornz]

Yea we don't even leave early for that amount of snow.

 

[Covet]

2H or 4H

I see no other vehicles, children, old people using walkers, cross-walk guards, or cops = 2WD is it fishtails more gas and turn into it and smile, if that gets scary throw it into neutral and tap the brakes, when you stop figure out if you are facing the direction you wanted to go, rinse and repeat.

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