What did you do in your Evoque today?

Oooooooo

Mark they are all showing as thumbnails now I think. Photobucket automatically resizes them from my camera anyway but the forum software appears now to have reduced them further

(11-09-2011 09:59pm)DynamicRRV Wrote:  Oooooooo

Tim, you must know we are all living through your words - imagining we are behind the wheel! Thanks so much and keep posting.
Love the white, sorry about the alloy scuffing. I know you kicked yourself but everything can be repaired and you won't be the only one (just the first !), Cheers Di

It's only a tiny scuff, about 2cm long, I expect these things on wheels fitted with low profile tyres, just annoying that it happened so soon into ownership. I ran an RRS on 20's and it was exactly the same, a year in a FFRR with 19"wheels and not one scuffed alloy.......

exceptional jealous now Tim....and I have to wait till end Oct / Nov...
and the countryside...hard to find down in the wilderness of the south....

Excellent !!! I am so jealous also... even if I sat in one Evoque last Saturday...

Then, other bad thing for me, it's very difficult, to find similar road in Switzerland where you are allowed to drive through with a 4x4... I have to come in UK with my Evoque !!!

Seb, it's the same in Scotland. There are no public rights of way here like there are in England and Wales. We have to have permission in writing from the land owner which is becoming increasingly difficult as many land owners now put their land to "set aside " to get nice payments from Brussels and thT means they cannot let us in any more if they want to collect the money.
In England it is different as there are ancient public rights of way but crazy people with 4x4's running Jungle Trekker mud tyres are abusing these routes, churning them into mud baths and spoiling them fir other users. Many if those lanes now have controlled access preventing even considerate offroad drives from getting access. Up here even mountain bikes are now being banned from offroading because it has been found that their tyres do even more damage to the Heath and soil than big heavy SUVs

OK... same problem than here... it's always because some people abuse of advantage that advantage disappeared... (Sorry for my poor English)

Today I drove my Evoque into town in the tail end of hurricane Katia which has swept across Central Scotland during the day - branches being blown down onto the road, parts of trees blown down too and driving rain the intensity of which I would normally associate with the Malacca Strait and South China Seas creating floods on the roads. RRE was unflappable in the strong gusty crosswinds and handled rivers of run-off on the verges really well although the car doesn't have the sheer weight to just plough on through standing water quite like my Defender, it was still impressive. Auto-on headlights came on almost immediately after I started the engine, well pleased that LR have adjusted the light level they are triggered as in the last 2 cars I considered that the auto-on didn't cut in until the light level had dropped to dangerous levels not to have lights on, so I never used it. Wipers coped well with the torrents of water falling out of the sky and the car throws deep stand water well away from the car unlike my Defender which becomes a submarine under the huge wall of water it throws all over itself when it encounters deep stand water on the road. At least it was relatively warm!