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Asked: Nov 18, 2008 - 02:39 PM

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What is all wheel drive and how is it different/same as 4 wheel drive?

trying to find out the difference between AWD & 4wd

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Date: Nov 18, 2008
Time: 05:56 PM

That's a big question in a lot of ways. Check out the first five or so posts in the 4WD & AWD systems explained discussion. If you need more than that, you can read the other 1300 posts in there. :-)

One simple answer:

4WD = Low range and High Range gearing
AWD = Only high range gearing

From there you go into permanent, full-time and part-time 4WD and AWD systems.

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