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Obviously if you encounter a sheet of pure ice then you will slide whatever your strategy but in the real world nothing is ever that simple. I have a lot of experience of ice and snow in at least a dozen different countries and in a dozen different 4 X 4s and in practice you get a whole range of...

Firstly, it seems to me that there is no difference between the physics of ascending a hill and descending (one has a negative velocity but all the equations stay the same). So, if it helps going up hill, it must help going down hill. Secondly, here is what ARB say on their website "Another...

So you can add them to late model 90's then? I am aware of the historical reputation but am not sure how reliable a 2010/11 model would be? I guess the obvious answer is for me to test drive a late model. Are there mods that you can make to increase comfort without sacrificing off road...

What I am really saying is that sometimes the Rav cannot cope with road conditions and one of the wheels starts spinning when going up the hill and we have to put the chains on (a big pain) I would also have thought that locking all of the wheels would stop sliding on ice when we descending but...

I currently have a 3 door Rav 4 which is a nice car but I need something that is short (so I can park in town and miscellaneous other tricky spots) and has really formidable off road capability (we spend a month each year up a mountain in Austria with a really steep ice and snow covered track)...