How much snow does it take to stop a 2011 Land Rover LR4 in its tracks?

No video? Most of the pictures don't impress me because the snow is not that deep.

I must agree uaw lax, my Civic could have done about 90% of this, and if it was so cold that it was powder snow I maybe could have done it all in my Civic? Going for a trip up some backroad in the MTNS I was forced to stop because a Subaru was stuck in the middle of the rd, he was putting his chains on @#, I lost all momentum, but I am not a fan of traction control in snow, I was stuck in a loaner car that had traction control in my flat driveway, mostly because the traction control didn't allow wheel spin, my civic did my driveway under the same conditions with ease without the useless brake activated traction control, for a 4x4 it should have selectable lockers, that is if you drive it off road.

The biggest factor will always be the tires. With chains, it will out preform anything else, with good off-road tires, it will outperform anything not equipped with chains. (and remember, all you guys, going off road is very different from on-road, no civic is going to come close because a civic would barely make it across a smooth soccer field).

I've been through 3 feet of heavy snow (not powder) in the original LR Freelander w/ BFG ATs. An LR4 (being both heavier and having a suspension that will equalize pressure among all it's tires better than any other non Land Rover 4x4) will out perform everything else.

By-the-way "truckman" if the traction control wasn't working properly, then most likley (like a GM system) it was probably advancing your engine timeing to reduce torque and spin. Those types of systems are carry-overs from the days that Cadillac went to front wheel drive drive trains (they were developed to reduce the power to the drive shafts as the earliest vehicle snapped the drive shafts). The Land Rovers are designed to dig down and will re-route torque to a non-spinning wheel. If that slips, it will continue to reroute it back and forth forceing the vehicle to 'dig in'and get down to solid footing (which is another reason why the Land Rovers have a 'sand' setting to that it ties to prevent that from occurring). But in mud and snow, it tries to get to bottom of something solid.

A lot of what happens is up to the mfg and how they set it all up (I currently have a 2006 Civic, but have had a Land Rover Freelander as well as I currently own a 1990 Range Rover & I've done everything from Sand, snow and mud in the Freelander [mud and water 2" over the wipers even]).

I own a 2007 civic, and it gets hung up easily because it is low to the ground, I have only been temporarily stuck twice, and the loaner vehicle I was stuck in my driveway was a 2009 Accord, I think the dealer made it so you couldn't turn the traction control off, it didn't allow for any wheel spin necessary for forward momentum, it was pathetic, And chains only help if you are in steep terrain or it's icy, and stopping is better also, I found I would go the same places with my 31in bfg KOs on my 4 runner, with or without chains, I would get stuck when I would push so much snow that it would pack up until I was high centered, that is if you allowed this to happen, I would feel the truck getting hung up so I would stop before I was stuck then I would back up and charge over the pile of snow I was pushing, over and over again.... And yes your old LR is a capable 4x4, the new ones do not compare off road, and lockers or selectable lockers are 10X better than traction control off road, and I still think my civic could have done most of this snowy road,as long as it's not off road in the rough terrain obviously. When you went through the deep water did you get water in your diffs and transfer case and tranny?

Whatever its ground clearance is +/- a few inches.

lol, they used chains as soon as they couldn't see the road. not very impressive imo

truckman: The first time I went in deep, they did find extra fluid in the tranny at the dealership and it was changed: but I eventually put extensions to the breathers after I knew better. rear axle never had a problem (there is no transfer case on the Freelander - it's a unique mechanism referred to as a viscous coupler on those - on Land Rovers you can't turn off the 4wd, they're always engaged).