Drifting in Grand Cherokee?

[PatrickBoza]

So my jeep is 4WD all time, would using the e brake to drift in the SNOW hurt my car?

[arks]

It'll probably burn up the e-brake shoes.

[Moppie]

Originally Posted by PatrickBoza

So my jeep is 4WD all time, would using the e brake to drift in the SNOW hurt my car?

If you do it a couple of times at low speed for a laugh, no harm done.

Do it frequently at high speed and you could flip your Jeep over, lots of harm done.


There is a center differential or similar coupling that allows the front and rear wheels to spin independently of each other.
This means you can lock the rear wheels and front wheel will still turn.
However, this puts a lot of stress on that center coupling so doing it too much, especially while trying to accelerate the front wheels, will do damage.

[PatrickBoza]

i would do it in the snow. so there would be very little chance i would flip. smh -_-

[Moppie]

Originally Posted by PatrickBoza

i would do it in the snow. so there would be very little chance i would flip. smh -_-

That won't stop it rolling over.

If you pick up enough lateral momentum, then one of the tyres catches an edge, it will flip.

[fredjacksonsan]

I'd stay away from it. The full time 4wd system tries to send power to the wheels that aren't spinning. If you're on the ebrake, then the rears aren't spinning and the system may think the front has lost traction and send more power to the rears....vicious cycle which will result in rapid wear of both the brake shoes and the tcase, as stated above by other posters.

[Raimundo]

If you know how to drift, don't need to use e-brake, specially in snow,doing it at SLOW SPEEDS. However, drifting is allways a risk of flip over and personal injury or worse, considering the higher center of gravity of an SUV.