Ha @ "...so I can drive around in some slop on these tires
again."
Yes indeed, driving this heavy truck on slippery slopes with bad tires is not good. I think the stock Goodyears were also pretty bad in snow. I remember very well when I first got my brand new LR3 HSE with 19 inch wheels back in 2006, we had some snow storms in NY where I lived back then. With only a few hundred miles or so on the truck I had two real near mishaps that I could remember on two separate occasions, both on slippery slopes. First one was in a parking lot with some slight sloped area with icy surface where my truck' rear end simply started to slide sideways toward the fence and there was nothing I could do, then some lights went on/flashed on the dashboard and thank God the truck straightened itself out. Very, very scary moment.
Second time it happened on a steep road going up hill at night time. Wasn't crazy blizzard or anything like that, snow had fallen a while back and it was just mixture of fresh powder, maybe some slush and ice. Few seconds of spinning all four wheels and the brand new LR3 begins to slide backwards with its rear end moving slightly laterally to the curb side. I could see the car parked in a driveway to my right (in my passenger side' sideview mirror) getting closer and closer and there was nothing that I could do about it. Luckily, the truck stopped sliding as the rear right wheel hit the 4 or five inch tall curb which was hidden in snow, with only a few feet remaining between me and the car parked in the driveway.
Meanwhile, I could see an Audio A4 moving nicely up that hill with no issues at all
I got out of the truck trying to plan out for making a U turn, etc. Some guys in the neighborhood had been watching me attempt and struggle up the road before I began to slide and stopped. They were like how could we help and were also puzzled that a Land Rover couldn't traverse what an Audi could do with ease, I remember them even saying something like that
I myself was perplexed a bit as back then I didn't know that an all season tire is really a compromise and downright dangerous on a heavy truck like an LR3. Those goodyears really sucked in snow but they were pretty good in rain/wet surfaces, but knowing everything that I know now, I attribute their being good in rain to the soft suspension setup of LR3.
