Things to do when selling your Evoque

I'm soon due to trade in my Evoque for a new one. Started thinking about what I need to do in terms of deleting data from the software in it - phone numbers etc.

Is there a way of wiping everything in the same way as you would if you were selling your phone?

I've had so many different quality issues with my car, the dealership is having it off me and is doing me a good deal on a new one. It's my pride and joy but I couldn't take the risk of running it out of warranty. It's had over £5k of warranty work done on it over the last 6 months. To be fair to the dealership they've gone a long way to try and keep me as a customer.

To the guys who have a current model and have owned older versions - will I notice much of a difference?

Yes you will, the torque vectoring is noticable if you start driving on twisty roads, my new car generates noticably less tyre noise on the Michelin Latitudes than the last one did on the Continentals. You will have TMPS as standard on any Evoque built since July - no need to get out of the car to check tyre pressures as the system shows not only actual pressure, it also shows the required pressures too. Regarding phone numbers that might be stored, I think they are read from your phone. One thing to remove is the "home" function
Which model are you going for?

I'm going for a Dynamic SD4 auto 5 door. Going for Corris Grey with a black panoramic roof, 825W stereo and blind spot indicators. The service pack too as that's a no brainer. I'm hoping that I was just unlucky with my car.

Am I right in thinking that you can't spec the cameras separately? I use them a fair bit but don't want the Lux pack again.

As far as I am aware they are only available as part of the Lux pack, I never use mine......

I think I must be out of step with the majority on this one as I used them all the time.

The blind spot indicators are a must have, I find them really helpfull.

(13-09-2014 10:43am)Devonian Wrote:  I'm soon due to trade in my Evoque for a new one. Started thinking about what I need to do in terms of deleting data from the software in it - phone numbers etc.

Is there a way of wiping everything in the same way as you would if you were selling your phone?

I've had so many different quality issues with my car, the dealership is having it off me and is doing me a good deal on a new one. It's my pride and joy but I couldn't take the risk of running it out of warranty. It's had over £5k of warranty work done on it over the last 6 months. To be fair to the dealership they've gone a long way to try and keep me as a customer.

To the guys who have a current model and have owned older versions - will I notice much of a difference?

If you are asking simply about build quality - then no you won't notice any difference - it still sucks!

It will still squeak, rattle, bits will fall off, will strand you with no gears AND it will cost you more!.

I am sure we all appreciate the problems some members have had with their Evoques, but in my opinion the negativity is wearing a bit thin now.

It seems very popular for some members to wade in with the age old Rattles, Crap dealerships and poor build quality arguments (which I appreciate must be very frustrating). However, even positive or new members posts are now sometimes shot down with "It's just a matter of time before it breaks" comments by members.

I've had 2 Evoques, no rattles or issues at all and dealer has been fine.

So now I will just wait for the "you must be one of the lucky ones" comments!

To be fair ceebee, it's not always been the way the parts have been put together at the factory it's been the parts themselves. For example the alloy wheels were all starting to corrode so they were all replaced under the warranty. Land rover outsource parts like that to my knowledge.

So true ceebee, when I was in the retail trade we were told that if a customer received
bad service they told 17 people, if they received good, they told 2.
I would imagine that on any car forum, (Germans included) the complaints will outweigh the positives.

We also had the corroding alloy problem with Lexus, a few years back.