HI! More Durango stuff. Ha, need an oil change and I was reading my own post to remind myself to either try it myself again or bring my filter.
So this post probably interests a very small amount of folks. You have to have three no four things in common with me.
1. You have a Durango SRT
2. You have a Jeep Grand Cherokee
3. You can and do drive both in snow/slick
4. You can and do drive like a bat out of hell and have 55 years experience at driving on this shit.
So if you begin to even set one of these monsters about 1/2 way spun out and do not piss your pants, and can recover and laugh, your in. Read on.
I took the Durango out to Denver for a season or two, managed to avoid most if not all snow, had it here last year but did not drive it much. So for the last couple of days I have had it out in the slick and snow.
I do have a new set of PS4 A/S on it. They are working and riding great. In the dry. But maybe not so good in snow. I cannot blame the entire performance on the tires because I’m crazy and will push something to the limit with curiosity.
I have posted and I have said and I will say again, a Jeep Grand possesses maybe the best winter driving capabilities of anything made with tires. So I compare everything to our current eighth Jeep, a ‘18 Grand Summit 5.7L.
Fuck! The Durango sucks!! When accelerating and it senses slick, holy shit does it over compensate and pull power. Jeep does that but does not bark as bad. When a Jeep senses ANY fuckup that may even begin to cause a sideways move, that stability control can make its brakes happen. Not so much to slow down, but to correct your ass! Durango? Durango don’t care, I cannot sense anything close to the Jeep’s controller. I have tried to slide the SOB and it does slide and it does not compensate like the Jeep. Was sideways nearly coming into my drive. Ha, I may have been concerned about the mailbox, that would have been embarrassing. But when one tire got the dry pavement, bam, you better be ready for a sudden correction. On the slick? Not.
So this is not fatal or anything, I like the vehicle. We just drove it about 4,300 miles. It was great. Or she drove it, and I was the co-pilot. No way you want me driving in traffic, and she knows it well.
So disappointed but makes me appreciate what the Jeep is. I’ll either just keep this one (109,000 now), or look for a low mileage used one before they fucked them up and took the hemi out. I’ll keep the Durango for other than the worst nature can throw. Be safe and Merry Christmas!!
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