Just picked my vrs up today...'tis a thing of beauty One hell of a smooth ride, and feels just so powerful ...am restricting myself to keeping it below 4500rpm at the mo though...at least for the first 1000 miles...

Is 4500rpm low enough, or should I drive it less than that even?

Cheers

Ventmore

Congrats Ventmore,

You'll need to change your "My Skoda" bit now!

Check your manual as to running in (although running in is deemed somewhat unnecessary now :confused: ). Just don't thrash it as it'll use oil, try an advanced search for more info.

Andy

You got it then! Glad you are pleased with it.

4000rpm's about right i reckon as long as its not constant. Try not to use full throttle and keep the engine speed varying, ie don't just sit on a motorway at 60 like all those Honda Civic 1.4's on the day the new reg plates come out! Basically just use it, but not too hard...yet.

Congrats Ventmore' date='

You'll need to change your "My Skoda" bit now!

Check your manual as to running in (although running in is deemed somewhat unnecessary now :confused: ). Just don't thrash it as it'll use oil, try an advanced search for more info.

Andy[/quote']

Agreed, it will use oil at first but dont worry this will stop once Engine has covered about 10000 miles I would suggest you buy a litre of the correct oil & carry it just in case. If you forget to check the oil for a while (we all do it) you can bet the oil light will come on at midnight on a country road.

glad your loving the car, mine had covered 1300 miles when i bought it so there wasnt any real need for me to run it in, i did have to top the oil up a couple of times though.

its covered nearly 8.5K miles now (only had it 6 months !!!) and the engines feeling better every day, the more miles the free'er (is that a word?) the engine gets and the better it feels.

have fun... those 1K miles wont go fast enough !

i ran mine in for 1000miles,and it used a little oil.

its now 10 months old and has 24500 miles on the clock,had a Jabba re-map at 10K miles and it hasn't missed a beat.

enjoy and then head to Jabba!!!!

24.5k, I'm only on 17k Alex !!!!!

I ran mine in... well sort of... It went straight out onto A12/m25 motorway duty on day2 and has been fine 17k miles later (And mine is 9 months old!!)

Am I being too careful - basically I'm keeping mine between 1500 - 2250 RPM which takes me up to 75 (ish in top) have covered 600 miles and intend taking it up to 3000 after 1000 miles - did this to my SEAT Alhambra 130 and it's not used hardly any oil - still above well above min with no top-up over 8000 miles.

Havent yet had a TDI that hasnt drunk some oil until about 6-10k, then nothing after that.

Nothing wrong with being gentle for the first 1k miles.

Andy,

Thanks for the advice - I've edited the post as "not used a drop" was a bit exaggerated - Good to hear that the long-term prognosis is good as even the dealer said it was acceptable to use 500ml in 1000 kilometers which roughly translates to nearly a litre per 1000miles :eek:

Gerald

I find its usually about 1 litre of oil used, well thats what the current pd130 has used in 8k miles. The previous tdi90 Octy used the same, as have 4 VW Transporter vans, all using the 2.5 TDI lump, the current and previous both being auto,s and all with air con.

Am I being too careful - basically I'm keeping mine between 1500 - 2250 RPM which takes me up to 75 (ish in top) have covered 600 miles and intend taking it up to 3000 after 1000 miles - did this to my SEAT Alhambra 130 and it's not used hardly any oil - still above well above min with no top-up over 8000 miles.

After 600 miles, 3000rpm will be fine and it won't hurt to rev it a bit higher occasionally when accelerating through the gears. Keep away from full throttle acceleration for a while longer though (at least 1000miles). It may use a bit of oil throught this period, but thats perfectly normal and nothing to worry about.

Why are you advised not to use full throttle acceleration whilst running in. Surely if you are keeping the revs low - in my case below 4500rpm - then it doesn't really matter how you make it to that figure. Can someone techy please enlighten me?

Also, I have used full throttle once or twice (only when needed) but still staying below 4500rpm. Does this mean I may have caused some long-term damage?

Cheers

Ventmore

Now you come to mention it, part throttle on a 225bhp audi tt 1.8 would be equal to full throttle on a 150bhp 1.8 but its the same motor....

As far as I understand it though, its to do with bedding the piston rings and cylinder bores together. Longterm you want as perfect a seal between piston rings and cylinder bores as you can get. This will give the best compression and hence give the most efficiency (power for amount of fuel burnt).

To bed in properly, general concensus says that during running in, you want to give the motor some load (acceleration), but too much too often may produce excessive heat build up and cause small scores in the bores (wear), the result of which would be higher oil consumption and lower compression.

Pootling around at 2000rpm constantly isn't really any good either as this will just mean it'll take much longer for the components to bed in.

Remember though, we are talking tiny amounts here.

Also, I would say that manufacturers want to make sure they don't get warranty claims from customers, so I believe they give conservative advice anyway.

Like I've said, just use it, but somewhere around the middle of its performance window. Half revs, half throttle, half maximum speed, and it'll be fine.

PS, did they sort the wiper problem?

Also' date=' I would say that manufacturers want to make sure they don't get warranty claims from customers, so I believe they give conservative advice anyway.

PS, did they sort the wiper problem?[/quote']

Thabks for the info. I did think myself that they may be being a little conservative. Otherwise I suppose we'd all rag the proverbials off the car and then go back and ask why we weren't warned against it when the car is damaged.

On the wiper problem, I went straight to the dealer the next day, and within 30 minutes, they had fitted a new wiper control unit and I was on my way home. Can't say fairer than that.

Cheers

Ventmore

Good to here the wipers are sorted, now go out and have lots of fun.

Good to here the wipers are sorted, now go out and have lots of fun.

Cheers mate. I certainly will be going out to have some fun. It's such a great car to drive, even taking it easy. Compared to my last car (micra) I feel like I'm on rails. The car seems so lively without thrashing it...can't wait to give it a proper go...I'll be like a kid with a new toy for the second time in as many weeks

Ventmore