Went to check on the tin tent yesterday and being a lazy git, I tried to turn around on the grass. All four wheels promptly started spinning and sinking in the mud!
Tried everything to get out - low range, manual, low revs. Nothing. Wheels just kept spinning. Eventually had to throw gravel into the newly created holes I'd made!

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needs clean now  2020 Porsche Panamera Turbo Hybrid (V FAST)
2017 Range Rover Autobiography 5.0 V8
2018 JCW Mini Cooper
2018 Skoda VRS

M+S markings mean nothing, there's no performance standard the tyres bearing them have to meet.

Last edited by Philip on 30th Jan 2014 11:01pm. Edited 1 time in total

Look on youtube at Range Rovers on wet grass

Embarrassing

Would knobbly tyres have even any better though? This stuff was proper slimy mud!

The answer is simple.


Lay off the pies and cakes

when the tyres are packed full of mud it dont matter how "mud n snow" they are...I used to run Pirelli ATR's on the D3 and got it stuck on some seriously slippy and boggy stuff....got it out eventually but sometimes its the luck of the draw..... Is this where I put the car details and a bit about myself ?........

mud slicks,been there and done that,heavy right foot Noddy

Cooper STT

its gonna happen Noddy... with all the rain we've had the ground is saturated its inevitable that you will spin your tyres, whatever you have on..

Mine got stuck in a similar vain with new Grabber ATs on it, had to bungee it out with my Classic then off to ATS to replace all the wheel weights which threw off

A quick thumbs up for standard Pirelli Scorpions.
Nipped out last in the snow. Was happily trundling along, radio on etc, forgot about the 90 degree bend at the end of the straight. In the last second my choices were :
Panic
Brake & steer round ( hopefully missing the very large stone gate post)
Carry straight on into the field . . .
I chose the third
So, we glided onto the snow covered absolutely sodden moor top field at 30 mph, prescribed a large circle in the snow, and left the field how we went in. Phew.
Back to the tyres - if you'd asked me before my chances of doing that successfully, I'd have said "very slim". Truth was, though, it was faultless.
Fortunately there was no gate . . .
FF now needing a bit of a clean . . .
I'd love to see the tyre marks from the sky !

 Where do you go after one of these . . . ?

Momentum is your friend  2011 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8

Previous cars :
2003 Range Rover Vogue TD6
1999 Discovery Td5 ES
1995 BMW M5 3.8 6 speed
1992 Range Rover 3.9 Efi Vogue
1992 BMW M5 3.8
1988 BMW 735i SE
1989 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.9i
1981 Ford Fiesta Supersport

Try setting the suspension to off-road height. That means the weight of the body is further away from the mud and you'll not have this problem. Ahem.................

....and breathe out and hold, that'll make you lighter as well......