Yes, I use wet/snow mode on slippery roads and it works as described above. Gas pedal response is muted, OF COURSE. That's one of the things it is supposed to do, to make spinning your wheels or spinning out less likely. There's no magic sauce that allows you to drive like you're in a NASCAR race on ice.

I think you don't understand how the selector works on our trucks

I think I pretty clearly stated I had never been in one. :yawn:

I use it when there's snow on the road along with 4A. Helps to avoid the rear end from coming out if you get too deep in the throttle and build some boost.

Yes, use it when needed. Example, driving up the canyon, or any curvy mountain highway, when conditions are especially slick with ice, slush, snow or any combination. That's when I don't want rapid acceleration, but instead smooth steady and gentle application of the throttle to prevent losing tracion and sliding. For general rainy/wet roads I get by fine in normal mode.

However, on snow covered dirt roads going uphill, I'll leave it in normal drive mode, disable traction control, and sometimes manually select the gear I'm in depending on grade changes and snow depth- usually doing less than 20mph in those situations. I've also locked out the rear diff on a couple occasions when it was really deep. Will inversely use the downhill assist to regulate speed when going down a steep snow covered dirt road below 20mph, it works amazingly well when you want to creep down a sketchy section.

No... Sport mode literally does *nothing* to Traction Control. If you want to change the TC behavior, you either press, double-press (which is Advancetrac Sport Mode), or push-and-hold the TC button to affect the TC behavior.

As for the snow setting, it's great for my wife in her Explorer. For people who know how to drive and control their vehicles, it's a useless nanny. I run sport mode on the ice and have zero trouble with it.

So are you saying that when going into sport mode and the traction control button lights up showing that its off, that the truck is lying to us?

My 18 certainly doesn't. No TC light when you activate Sport mode on the shifter. If you double-tap the TC button and put it in AdvanceTrac Sport Mode, you'll get a dash indication - but that's a separate process from the "normal" sport mode.

Snow/Wet seems to change the behavior of 4A as well. I never see it switch back to entirely RWD in 4A with snow/wet mode on.

On my 2020, anytime you change Drive Mode the Traction Control is then changed to On. You can also turn Traction Control to Off, On or AdvanceTrac Sport Mode in any of the Drive Modes. Seems quite counter productive to putting drive mode in Snow/Wet and then disabling traction control or putting it in sport mode, but hey drive it how you want it!

I've never set traction control to AdvanceTrac Sport, but never noticed it cutting power when I turned traction control Off either. Got some test driving to do now.