Sadly, trouble free and land Rover don't go together in the same sentence. However ,the diesel powertrain and auto boxes on these early cars are predominately Ford derived. Similar to what you would find in a Mondeo. The rest of the car is unpredictable ,with loads of electrical gremlins. Do you feel lucky?

Most cars today have a design lifespan of 6 to 7 years, after that then it's down to how careful and fastidious the previous owner(s) were, and luck.

I find that very hard to believe but like anything if you treat a car badly and neglect it ultimately it will cost you more.

Only yesterday I checked the MOT history of one of our old cars. November 2007 Micra meaning its now over 13 years old. We sold it in June 2015 and during our ownership it was serviced correctly (dealer) but I have no idea how its been looked after since or what issues its had.

Bottom line is the car was MOT'd in November and only failed on a OS front spring, it failed in November 2014 on a broken NS front spring, we never noticed an issue.

The car is twice the age of the above.

I like looking at which cars last, it's not unusual to see 20 year old Peugeots, Renaults, Citroens around. These of course are the ones with the bad reputation for lasting. So many older cars around and yes, many very old diesels. I reckon if you were so minded you could make most cars last many many years.

my wife bought the 2.2 diesel new in 2014, she's done 55,000mls . . . . sunvisor replaced foc long after warrantee expired. most reliable car we've had in 50 years. will replace with latest model soon.

strange how so many people love to send in negative evoque comments.

robbieboy

It isn't specific to the Evoque, it is Land Rover/Range Rover in general. And the comments are based on their cars consistently propping up the bottom of reliability surveys. The fact that yous has been reliable, does not mean anything other than yours has been reliable. To get a general indication of reliability, many cars need to be taken into account. This reveals a rather different picture to your own experience.

Furthermore, that this car, which is only 6 years old and was bought new, is the most reliable car you've had in 50 years suggests either very bad previous choices or very bad luck!. In 2010 I bought a 5 year old Ford Transit Connect (based on Focus/Mondeo) with 60k miles. I ran it for 8 years taking the mileage up to over 130k miles and nothing went wrong on it. I replaced it late 2018 with a 2010 VW Caddy with just under 80k miles, mileage now up to 107k and nothing has gone wrong with it either (including the sun visor, that goes for both!).

Edited by badbusdriver on 02/02/2021 at 15:06

my wife bought the 2.2 diesel new in 2014, she's done 55,000mls . . . . sunvisor replaced foc long after warrantee expired. most reliable car we've had in 50 years. will replace with latest model soon.

strange how so many people love to send in negative evoque comments.

robbieboy

AFAIK it's the 2.0 diesel that has issues, not the older 2.2

For what it’s worth, we had a 2007 Freelander 2, which is the same engine as your proposed Evoque 2.2. It had a manual gearbox and given that it was an older engine, it was Euro 4 on the emissions spectrum and didn’t have a DPF. We bought it at two years old with 11,000 miles on the clock and ran it to around 75,000, when it was seven years old.

Only sold it because I changed jobs and got a company car. In that time, we the only costs we incurred were one set of tyres at around 50,000 miles and a headlight bulb. Brake pads and discs were original at point of sale and it was 100% reliable. Would have kept it, were it not for the company car. A look at the MOT checker shows it now on almost 160,000 and nothing major has been required to pass the MOT.

Perhaps we were lucky?! Not sure how well resolved the DPF installation was on the later Euro 5 2.2 PSA engines, as it wasn’t designed with that in mind. Having said that, it’s probably a darn sight more reliable than the first iterations of the Ingenium JLR engine that replaced it!