Power Train Problems of Land Rover Evoque

Engine misfires causing car to lose power and go into 'restricted mode'. This is very dangerous. It happened at high speed, making it very unsafe to pull over to the side of the highway - almost causing a multiple vehicle accident. Taken to dealer 3 times and they have not resolved the issue. Informed landrover USA about my concerns and they have not been helpful - saying take the vehicle back to the dealer and pay an additional $380 for diagnostics after already paying them $200 as the car is no longer under warranty. Vehicle has $59,250 miles. Other Evoque owners also experience similar problems.

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We were headed down a fairly steep grade that was covered in packed snow conditions, there is a button in the car that controls various terrain conditions and one of them has a snowflake on it, my wife suggested we put it in that position and I thought that would be good since it was snowing. There is also a hill decent button that controls speed going down hill that we had been using earlier on dry conditions that was engaged. As we headed down the slick grade at a crawling rate of speed the cars brakes locked down to the best of my knowledge the wheels were totally sliding the anti-lock system was making noise but we were just sliding. I had no luck turning the wheel or assisting the brakes to get the car to stop sliding, we were in no doubt headed off the road and down a mountain when I decided to step on the accelerator pedal and this unlocked the brakes so I could turn, as soon as I let off the gas it would lock back down and start sliding. There was a road just ahead of us to the right that headed up the mountain so I stepped on the gas and took it up the road to get the car to stop while we were still alive. We then looked in the owners manual and it did not mention if you put the car in snow flake mode it would lock down the wheels on steep grades. So after my wife said we are selling this piece of c--- I put the car back in regular driving mode and we headed back down the slope just using a low gear and manual braking and this would work if you did not push on the brake to hard, then it would start sliding again. So we took it to the dealer when we had a chance and they said it was fine! I still do not see any warnings about not putting the car in certain positions for various driving conditions on any buttons in the car or in the owners manual.

Tl- the contact owns a 2013 Land Rover Evoque. The contact stated that the vehicle's transmission was switched to park with the engine turned on before exiting the vehicle with a passenger in the front passenger seat. The contact stated that he pressed a remote button to open the bay door to the building and as the door began to move up the vehicle suddenly began to move forward. The contact indicated that the vehicle's roof made contact with the bay door as it moved into the building and continued moving through the building before crashing into an office wall. The contact indicated the vehicle was traveling approximately 7 mph. After the vehicle crashed into the office wall the contact was able to enter the vehicle and press the stop button which shut the engine off. No injuries were reported during the incident. A police report was taken at the scene. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the defect. The failure mileage was 5000. Jft.

While driving in rainy weather for approximately one hour, I went to accelerate to pass a car and there was a loss of power, amber waning light came on, engine light came on and I could not go faster than 35 mph. This could have caused a serious accident but I was able to slow down enough to get back in the slow lane. Car had to be towed to dealer the next day. The loner Evoque they gave me did the same thing in rainy weather on September 16, 2012.

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While attempting to enter highway from street to highway speeds, the Evoque 2014 would not accelerate but rather rev at very high rpms for about 15 seconds and then jarringly slip into next gear. This occurred on 6 occasions, always on the highway and often as cars and trucks rapidly approached and had to slow behind me or swerve to free lanes. I was told several times by the dealer that this was likely a software problem and in an email: "a couple of weeks after installing the latest software for your transmission, the factory has requested all dealers to suspend the installation of the software. They have not gone into detail on why but I assume the software has not completely or only partially corrected the intended repairs" this has me very concerned about the reliability and safety of the vehicle.

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