Damage to my poor Octy....

I hit a load of snow & to get out I had to give it quite a bit of welly, the old rev counter went just over 6k RPM, whilst spinning away out of it.

She's only done 500 miles, will a glitch like that do her any harm or not?

Edited 9 January, 201016 yr by Indiana Jones

Nah - some theories even suggest bedding in process needs a degree of thrashing.

Oh you're a hero!

Thanks.

Spinning the wheels will do more harm than good.

2nd gear clutch only, no revs.

Damage to my poor Octy....

I hit a load of snow & to get out I had to give it quite a bit of welly, the old rev counter went just over 6k RPM, whilst spinning away out of it.

She's only done 500 miles, will a glitch like that do her any harm or not?

Won't be any damage done fella. As long as it's not done all the time there is no harm in it. The basic gist of runnin an engine in is to take it easy and not rev the arse off it but don't be scared of it either!

Spinning the wheels will do more harm than good.

2nd gear clutch only, no revs.

Try getting a DSG boxed car to go into 2nd in the snow & ice on a hill, it's like asking for a 100% payrise. It just ain't gonna happen!

Try getting a DSG boxed car to go into 2nd in the snow & ice on a hill, it's like asking for a 100% payrise. It just ain't gonna happen!

I thought automatics let you force the gearbox into certain gears for when you need to get up hills and things, or is the DSG a little different from those automatics?

With the DSG you can put it in (D)rive which is full auto or you can push the selector lever across to the left and make it select up & down as you want it to.

The problem seems to be that it won't go out of 1st, because I think it knows that it's not actually moving/going anywhere.

You could select (S)port for sporty driving, but not in this weather unless you've got a death wish.

spinning up to 6k in the snow wont do nothing to your engine as there is not really much of a load on it,. ie the wheels are spinning.

its not like revving your car to 6k on a dry road where the engine is having to work hard due to the larger load

Ah, so that's fine.

Nothing too much to worry about then.

All I want now is this bloody snow to go away! :evil:

Spinning the wheels will do more harm than good.

2nd gear clutch only, no revs.

I'm puzzled by this response, what harm would this possibly cause? If you were spinning the wheels on the ice and then deliberately drove the vehicle onto a surface where the wheels would immediately grip, then I guess you would risk damaging the drive shafts and gearbox, but I don't think the poster actually did this, he just revved the engine.

I'm puzzled by this response, what harm would this possibly cause? If you were spinning the wheels on the ice and then deliberately drove the vehicle onto a surface where the wheels would immediately grip, then I guess you would risk damaging the drive shafts and gearbox, but I don't think the poster actually did this, he just revved the engine.

IJ's car is new, still in the run-in period, which is why he was worried about the high revs. I did something similar on mine the other day, had the DSG in manual on my snowy backroad, then pulled onto the A1 and accelerated away in 1st forgetting I was still in manual

Edited 10 January, 201016 yr by IndianaBlues

Exactly right, well within the run in period.

Trying to get away from a slight hill start was nearly impossible, the revs rocketed & the wheels spinning like hell on ice, snow & slush.

That's why I was a little worried about doing damage to the engine.

I use the manual mode on my car for braking unlike half the muppets around here who use the brakes and skid all over the place.

Edited 10 January, 201016 yr by Indiana Jones

Don'nt worry. Modern engines are so well made that they can take the revs and hard use straight from day 1

Look at this site for an 'alternative' way to run new engines in

http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm

I used the described procedure on my new Focus ST in 2006.

Upto 6000rpm in 2nd, 3rd and 4th for about 20 miles as soon as I drove it away from the garage.

Engine has performed faultlessly for 47000 miles and has not used one drop of oil

Everyone is correct on this topic, even during the running in period a short time near maximum revs will not do the engine any harm at all, devonutopia is even correct in this remark about a bit of thrashing during the running period being good for an engine, but only when up to temperature, especially for a diesel as if you take it too gently then you will glaze the bores and get high oil consumption as the oil control rings cannot wipe the oil down back into the sump. Back in 1996 when i was a tractor driver I was given a brand new 120 hp tractor, the first 10 hours of its life was on a power harrow which will take all the power you can throw at it up to 200 hp. Flat out, full power with smoke pouring out of the bonnet from the paint burning off the exhaust manifold! Put 6500 hrs work on that machine with no problems and no oil top ups between services. Your car should be fine.

Thanks very much guys, you've put my mind a ease now.

I'm puzzled by this response, what harm would this possibly cause?

Not to the engine, I was refering to trying to move the car after you've polished the road up. If you couldnt move at 2k, the 6k RPM wont get any better results