How many miles does the car have to be run in before I can safely take it over at 3000rpm and open it up?

Do what the manual says. Don't go above 4K for the first 500, don't labour the engine (i.e. try to ask it to go with too few revs), gradually increase revs and give it the occasional boot for the next 500.

Something like that, anyways.

And post some pics

Regards,

Mark

I think its about 1,000, could be 2,000, but I can't honestly remember (that was 37000 miles ago)

My manual had the run-in distance in the beginning section somewhere. Perhaps its worth checking that out in case your run-in is different to the TDI's. 2000 miles is a safe bet anyway.

Run in period is 1000 miles.

Regards,

Mark

Yup, mine was 1000 miles.

Felt like 5000!

My 1000 came and went very quickly. Within the first few days of ownership I took him (very gently) to Pembrokeshire and back, so the 1000 miles was up by the time I got home (about 2 weeks from I was given the keys.)

Funnily enough every 10,000 mile service seems to have come and gone quick too... Damn my 55 mile commute!

"took him"?

Your car is a he???

Yep 1k, but after the first 500 start to give it some more gas, just as Mark says

It can't be a woman being a diesel - too much muscle/torque.

OK - IMHO I don't know if you can gender a car - Its a neuter in German anyway - "Das auto."

:confused:

Feminine in French though IIRC...

Rob.

Hmmm - what's his name, Jason?

Did you see Top Gear on Sunday where Jeremy asked anyone if they had named their car? One unfortunate person admitted to naming their MR2 "Miles", to which Clarkson retorted "Instead of its proper name, which is Graham Norton". I larfed ....

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"took him"?

Your car is a he???

Clarkson took the mickey about people naming their cars or calling them he or she on Top Gear last week.

He asked the audience and only the women would admit to it - one called hers 'Myles' which wasn't too sad.

(Beaten to it !!!)

Thanks guys its about 800 miles now! Was at the lights pulled up next to a sapp cosworth, was dying to floor it, but didnt want to do any damage to the car, besides i would have lost anyhow.

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Thanks guys its about 800 miles now! Was at the lights pulled up next to a sapp cosworth, was dying to floor it, but didnt want to do any damage to the car, besides i would have lost anyhow.

It's very important to know you traffic light foes.

e.g. "Whoops, side-vents on that 3-series. That'll be an M3. Best let it go".

"Oh, Type-R Civic huh? Worth a shot".

:cheers:

Has no name. Have to think about that. Scott the Skoda? Hmm, perhaps not, eh?

I think I'll just revel in its masculinity, and forget about actually naming it.

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Has no name. Have to think about that. Scott the Skoda? Hmm, perhaps not, eh?

I think I'll just revel in its masculinity, and forget about actually naming it.

My previous Fabia was called TK (TK-421 from Star Wars was the call sign for one of the stormtroppers. The Fabia was white and with it's black grill and strips it looked like a stormtrooper), my RS is called Glory (Buffy reference).

I have always had a soft toy in the back of my car who's colour matched the colour of the car. TK had Walter the polar bear and Glory has Cthulhu a creature from H.P. Lovecraft's story "The call of Cthulhu". He brings chaos to anyone who tailgates me.

Does this make me less masculine?

Glory , eh? Now she had a mighty fine ass for an evil god type being! (not as nice as Faith's in leather trousers , but thats another story..... )

I named my Fabia Sooty

NOT!

IT...

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Glory , eh? Now she had a mighty fine ass for an evil god type being! (not as nice as Faith's in leather trousers , but thats another story..... )

Faith's behind certainly would beat Glory's...

(Now *that's* an image you can see already, I bet!)

You better believe it!

Hmm... I've often wondered why some people name their cars. I had assumed (thinking about the people I know who do give their cars names) that it was a girly sort of thing, but I'm not so sure, now. My cars have always been it.

Back on topic: stuck to a 50mph limit for the first 500 miles, then gradually built up from there.

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Does this make me less masculine?

No, but it makes you a sci-fi/horror/fantasy geek. Which is awesome My black vRS is called Nyarlathotep... only kidding!

Actually, I don't have a name for my car. It's just "the car". Hmmmm... Must think of a name now.

all my/SWMBO cars have names... not girly ones..

octavia = skud

tuscan = plastic pig

camaro = project intimidator

lada (rip)= shed

clk (rip) = pimp mobile

mgf = muggy

The woman I bought my Sierra 4X4 from had called it

Sophie !!

Sophie The Sierra ?? I did my best not to laugh too much !!

Graham