I have had my 4WD pickup six years now. I have had it in 4WD maybe eight or nine times so far and probably at least four of those times I would have had to call a tow if not for 4WD. They would have had to come a good distance to get me too. The first time I used 4WD in it was to pull my son out of a low place in a parking lot in a freak 18" snowstorm in the late winter of '11. He was facing into a light post and couldn't back up in his 2WD pickup. I didn't even spin, and he was amazed. He sold it and bought an older 4WD dually diesel a couple years later. My new (to me) tractor is 4WD, and I didn't consider 2WD.