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#1 ·
I'm hoping* to lease (and later purchase) a D180 Velar S. Minimal options (it's about at my budget as it stands), but I think it's still going to delight me! Anyway, pleased to meet you all.

* Hoping because the leasing company is being a bit awkward about the car - https://www.velarforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=742
 
#6 ·
I actually ended up leasing directly through a local Land Rover dealer (Lookers in Bishops Stortford).

I got a Velar D180 S in Byron Blue with fixed sunroof, park pack, power pack 2, 5 year low mileage servicing for about £1750 deposit and £580 per month. I'm really chuffed with it (got the same price through my leasing company but non-metallic paint and no servicing).

I don't need it until June (previous lease runs out then), so no hurry for delivery - but I'm not like an excitable little child and can't wait!
 
#7 ·
andyjeffries said:
I actually ended up leasing directly through a local Land Rover dealer (Lookers in Bishops Stortford).

I got a Velar D180 S in Byron Blue with fixed sunroof, park pack, power pack 2, 5 year low mileage servicing for about £1750 deposit and £580 per month. I'm really chuffed with it (got the same price through my leasing company but non-metallic paint and no servicing).

I don't need it until June (previous lease runs out then), so no hurry for delivery - but I'm not like an excitable little child and can't wait!
Awesome. I got mine from there as well. What's your annual mileage if you don't mind me asking? Sounds like a good deal.

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#8 ·
Hey VelarSam, sure - I currently only do about 6,000-8,000 miles per year, so I went for 10k miles on this deal and if I go over, I doubt it will be by a lot so I'll just pay the penalty (or negotiate during the lease if it becomes obvious it'll go up).
 
#9 ·
Hi all.

I wanted to share my experience last year of leasing a Velar S, through my local Land Rover dealership Beadles of Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Even though their lease costs were quite a bit higher than online broker, I was assured by them that if there were any problems they would fix immediately.
I took delivery of new Velar on 1st Nov 2017 and even though it passed their PDI checks, there were scratches on driver's door and door sill plate, (which they subsequently repaired after numerous emails).
More worryingly after a few days I noticed that the Sat Nav wasn't showing any traffic congestion (even though there was).

On further investigation it transpires that there is a software fault, so no Wi-fi Hotspot, no InControl Apps and no traffic updates would work.
It was returned to the dealership on 23 Nov 2017 and as of 18 Jan 2018, it still isn't fixed !

I have been fobbed off with new software updates, latest releases and waiting on a component, but at the end of the day it's a software fault that prevents any traffic congestion being displayed on your Sat Nav that nobody at JLR technical can fix.

Although the dealership lent me a loan car, nobody ever apologised and I was fobbed off for nearly 2 months.
Incredibly I was told by the dealership that I didn't have any consumer rights !

Luckily for me, I understood the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and the manager of the dealership didn't.

If you reject faulty goods within the first 30 days, then you are entitled to a full refund.
I rejected the car on Day 30, by contacting Lex (the lease company) and received a full refund last week.

My advice is never buy a car outright.
Either lease it or buy with the in house finance company.

If i had bought that car outright, I probably would be still arguing with dealership on 1 Nov 2018 !

Unfortunately I have spoken to three people that have bought a Velar and all of them have had problems.
It's such a shame, as the Velar is a stunning looking car.

I guess it comes as no great surprise that the Velar has so many problems when you consider that in a What Car survey in 2017, the Range Rover Sport is the least reliable large SUV - and least reliable of all cars !

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-5017573/Most-reliable-car-makes-sold-UK-Japanese.html
 
#11 ·
Well I'm loving mine with no faults other than software update which will apparently fix internet browsing and live services which I'm sure I'll be using every second of every minutes. I mean I've really missed not having those.
 
#12 ·
Hi Milky400.

I would be interested to know how you get on with your internet browsing/live services software update.
That was the problem with mine and they said a simple software update would fix.
However 2 months later and they still hadn't fixed it.

Do you get updates showing red traffic congestion on your Sat Nav ?
 
#13 ·
The update to fix those issues has only just been released update 17C. I had the previous update cancelled as it was solving the issues (maybe the one you had which JLR pulled)

Currently I do not get update on sat nav, which I've been told this update will solve, which to be fair are useful
 
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