How many revs at 70mph?

[JohnSTV6]

As above, had my clutch and flywheel replaced last week, just have a feeling my car is revving higher than it used to.

It might all be in my head like lol

Car is a 2.0 pd 140 sport diesel 6 speed

I'm getting exactly 2000rpm at 70mph in 6th gear

[Phil-E]

That sounds about right.

I know some rev at 1900 too.

Was it just the clutch and flywheel replaced? Have they tooked the diff?

Phil

[gregoir]

That's 35mph per thousand rpm in 6th? No way mine revs that low. More like 2500rpm -but I could be wrong.

[JohnSTV6]

Was it just the clutch and flywheel replaced? Have they tooked the diff?

Phil

Was full clutch kit including DMF and cylinder, don't think the diff would have been touched.

If that sounds right then I'm happy, just I went on 1st decent long motorway run yesterday since having it fitted and it just seemed a bit higher than I thought.

Gregoir - is yours a 2.0 6 speed?

Edited 28 August, 2012 by JohnSTV6

[Wardy]

Yep, that sounds fine to me. Mine sits at the same indicated speed for that gear and engine revs.

[JohnSTV6]

Cheers wardy

[gregoir]

Could not do 70 mph on way home but an extrapolation from 48mph(using my GPS) at 1500rpm gives about 32 mph per thousand rpm. So roughly 2200rpm at a true 70 mph.Maybe 2000rpm at an indicated 70?

Yup 2l diesel, 6 speeder 140ps.

Edited 28 August, 2012 by gregoir

[silver1011]

My 2.0 PD170 vRS does bang on 2,000rpm at 70mph.

[KBPhoto]

My PD140 (not sport) does just over 2000 revs at 70mph in 6th according to the dials.

[Silvergamer]

Sounds about right as mine does 1500rpm at 60MPH in 6th.

[andyvee]

Mine is more or less bang on 2000rpm at an indicated 70mph in 6th as well

[Silvergamer]

Had a proper look again today and it was around 1800rpm at 70MPH, that's speedo 70 and not satnav 70.

[Golf-Fiend]

Indicated - 70mph

SatNav - 66mph

(after looking at it for 400 miles going to Scotland!)

[shots89]

My 170cr VRS does about 1500-2000 at 70mph but one thing you shouldn't be looking at the dash board at that speed lol

[silver1011]

My 170cr VRS does about 1500-2000 at 70mph but one thing you shouldn't be looking at the dash board at that speed lol

Kind of difficult to know how fast you are going or how much fuel you have left then!?

[shots89]

Ok chill out just having a laugh some people can't take a joke

[booke23]

My 170cr VRS does about 1500-2000 at 70mph

That's quite a rev range.....is your clutch slipping?!

[shots89]

No it's 2000 rpm just went a tested it on the bypass near my house thought it seemed abit strange when I posted that

[gregoir]

Managed to get on the motorway at the weekend. My 140ps 6 speeder revs higher than reported above. About 2200rpm at a true 70mph ( Garmin GPS satnav) . 2000rpm is well short of a genuine 70mph. Difficult to avoid parallax erors when reading the dials though.

[silver1011]

Ok chill out just having a laugh some people can't take a joke

How about telling one that's funny then?

[Richard A Thackeray]

2100RPM @ 70MPH for the 1.6Tdi

However, front tyres are at about 3mm, so that may make a (very) slight difference?

[Wardy]

Managed to get on the motorway at the weekend. My 140ps 6 speeder revs higher than reported above. About 2200rpm at a true 70mph ( Garmin GPS satnav) . 2000rpm is well short of a genuine 70mph. Difficult to avoid parallax erors when reading the dials though.

Interesting; could be that the gearbox spec for later models is different. Skoda did this for the Fabia vRS certainly, where originally it was specced with a lower 6th gear ratio which meant earlier examples were running about 200rpm lower at an indicated 70. They might have done something similar with the Octy which hasn't been spotted or noticed to date.

[Wardy]

Re-tested mine on the flat last night - 6th gear, 70mph indicated - 2050rpm.

[Topstop]

Autobahn. 4200 rpm in 6th. for a couple of miles. Fabia Mk 1. VRS. Speed?

[kitkat1963]

Autobahn. 4200 rpm in 6th. for a couple of miles. Fabia Mk 1. VRS. Speed?

 

Hmmm, I would take a blind guess at somewhere around 140 mph?