I was driving home from hockey [late] last night and decided to see what the FJ would do in various situations; the side streets were glare ice and there was no one else on the road.
I found that, using the full time four wheel drive (AWD - Manual Trans), it was pretty easy to break the back end out but the VSC would generally correct things (all but the most extreme anyway). In 4H, it was much harder to break the back end out - which was good in that there was no VSC. 4H was, in all, probably the more stable of the two approaches.
Two questions to the group:
- Does anyone know how the full time four wheel drive works - it seemed that the bias was toward putting power to the back wheels.
- Has anyone else tried some of this out in icy conditions and, if so, did they find the same thing; I didn't really spend a lot of time doing this so I wouldn't consider my testing comprehensive.
