wet slippry grass is a killer on our old car ee fitted bfg mud terrains which made it unstoppable but noisey as hell on road. try lowering tyre pressures if you get stuck again keep a portable tyre inflater in the boot
 
I could feel the new tyre issue on mine a couple of weeks ago on black ice. Brand new Hercules Terra Trac IIs which were great on snow just went silly on a bit of frozen water
 
See this is the part I don't understand
With my trooper I was using the same tire. I must admit I bought them brand new and they were worn in before I went off road.

But the point is my trooper is the same age and the only difference is that it was a manual and you could have ether 2 or 4 wheel drive
 
If I knew what that was I would agree. Lol
I'm guessing the rover does not have that then

I'm guessing the trooper is lighter also
 
prob not a lot in the weight difference, but the limited slip diff, transfers torque from the spinning wheel to the none spinning one, whereas the land rover has an open diff which if one wheel spins it stays spinning, you can trick it into transfering power to the other wheel with a bit of gentle left foot braking
 
Weight will play a big part. You need to strip out all those unnecessary bits like electric window motors, sunroof motors, leather heated seats, air con etc. :)
 
You could try setting the gearbox in "manual" (press the sport button) when its in low range and it will start in the gear you have selected on the left of the H gate. This will give you less power to the wheels as it will start in a higher gear. Also handy as your not then changing gear in tricky situations.

As mentioned though, wet grass awful stuff momentum/speed is often the answer or not stopping in particularly tricky places. As said unless it was VERY steep I would probably have left it in high range.

Just out if interest, how long was the grass? I would wager than the car being in normal ride height in long wet grass would induce an alarming amount of drag
 
The grass is very short most of the grass had been flattened but I would say it was bogie underneath

The car climbed up the shallow bank ok it was at the top of the bank I got stuck were it levelled out.

The grass at the top was very short
 
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Land Raver said:
Weight will play a big part. You need to strip out all those unnecessary bits like electric window motors, sunroof motors, leather heated seats, air con etc. :)
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The problem with that is. I loaded the car up with loads or feed for the bees so I can't really do much about the weight

Apart from me stoping eating
 
Fit these front and rear! KAM Difflock | KAM Differentials

As someone else said, the clicking was probably the traction control braking the free spinning wheel. Should have see an orange light with TC come up on the dash as it "clicked".

The weight probably helped grip-wise but not on maintaining momentum up the slope. Braking the spinning wheel won't help momentum either.
 
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