Having ordered a brand new car for the first time in August, I'm eagerly awaiting my race blue vrs tsi dsg hatch, which should be ready to pick up first week of November.

Can anyone tell me what (if any) precautions I should take in terms of running in the engine? I heard the revs should be kept below 3000 rpm for the first 500 miles, but for an auto transmission, I guess you could only achieve this by putting it in manual mode, which surely most people don't do!

Any recommendations? Thanks.

Enjoy the new car.

 

Take it easy on the new tyres once you check and set the pressures, and get the newness off them.

 

Then Run in the Brakes, Discs and Pads newness off them, let the new Suspension Settle, Bushes, Springs, Dampers etc.

By the time you take it easy for a while and let everything have a sympathetic start, the Engine & DSG will be fine.

 

Its possibly had the nuts revved off leaving the Factory & the Ferry, so its run in already.

Modern Engines and Autoboxes are good to go from New.

 

george

if you don't want to rev the car above 3000prm then use a fairly light throttle and the DSG will change up well before 3000rpm.  You will soon learn to control the revs at which the DSG changes up (and down) by your use of the accelerator.  In my view the problem with DSG is that it often runs in too low a gear - mine will change into 6th at 42mph and stay in any gear, to suit a steady speed, on a light throttle down to 1200rpm.  I believe that your MkIII will be high geared in 4th, 5th and 6th (and may be also a little in 3rd) then my MKII FL.

Thanks both for the advice! I've only ever driven autos on hire cars and the demo vrs at the dealers. In my mind I had imagined that when accelerating there was a fixed rpm at which the up-shift occurs. Perhaps one of the differences between sport, normal and eco would be this rpm trigger point. From your comments philbes, it sounds like it is more complex/sophisticated than this though!

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts.

Run-in to the manual instructions and you won't be far wrong.

 

As George suggests let all components bed-in,  the auto box will get used to your style of "Normal driving"

 

Personally I  selected Normal mode for the first 1500 miles.

 

Then a progressive wind up for the next 1500 miles with trying out modes and extending to red line in short bursts. 

 

But then I'm old engineering school - old fart who likes a bit of go!

 

Enjoy your new motor , I loved mine for 12000 miles.

Run-in to the manual instructions and you won't be far wrong.

As George suggests let all components bed-in, the auto box will get used to your style of "Normal driving"

Personally I selected Normal mode for the first 1500 miles.

Then a progressive wind up for the next 1500 miles with trying out modes and extending to red line in short bursts.

But then I'm old engineering school - old fart who likes a bit of go!

Enjoy your new motor , I loved mine for 12000 miles.

Thanks for your input Keith. Dare I ask what happened after 12000 miles? Sounds ominous. Or did the novelty just wear off?

I got my diesel VRS DSG on Friday and am just taking it steady, easy to keep under 3000 rpm, but I guess petrol will Rev higher. In my book it's best to keep under 3,500 rpm on any new engine for the first 1000 miles then away you go.

Thanks for your input Keith. Dare I ask what happened after 12000 miles? Sounds ominous. Or did the novelty just wear off?

Offer I couldn't refuse. Not prepared to wait for the 280bhp Octavia vRS SOMETIME/ NEVER?

Offer I couldn't refuse. Not prepared to wait for the 280bhp Octavia vRS SOMETIME/ NEVER?

Coming from a Civic 2.2 CDTi, I think the petrol vrs should be plenty quick enough for me for a while. I actually test drove the vrs TDI to begin with, but it was less punchy than I had hoped, which was why I sampled the TSI and my heart was won over. I suppose if I do start getting bored in a couple of years I could always get a Revo map.

Just floor it

In normal circumstances, no worry, you should not reach 3500rpm (3000 is more for à diesel, I think).

In case of kickdown, though (I mean full throttle, not downshift), you'll easily be above 5000rpm. Just be patient.

Just floor it  +1

 

You've got a warranty/breakdown/assist haven't you ?

You don't need to run in a modern engine or gearbox.

Just drive it as you normally would, enjoy it & it will be fine.

 

Keeping the revs lower will of course do it no harm, but then again neither will driving it harder once the engine is warm.

Wether it is needed or not to seems still to be an opened debate in many forum.

Having all the pieces going smoothly together  before puting the things under heavy load  does not sound as a bad idea to me, however.

This is also what is promoted in the user manual for the first 1000 to 1500 km.

Thanks both for the advice! I've only ever driven autos on hire cars and the demo vrs at the dealers. In my mind I had imagined that when accelerating there was a fixed rpm at which the up-shift occurs. Perhaps one of the differences between sport, normal and eco would be this rpm trigger point. From your comments philbes, it sounds like it is more complex/sophisticated than this though!

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts.

 

The up/down shifts happen dynamically... in that they won't only happen at the same revs or speed. They change depending on many different factors like throttle position, engine load, speed, engine temperature (mine holds the gears longer when cold) etc.

 

So you will find you can control very easily where the engine revs to. With light to medium throttle you will get the car moving nicely but it won't rev right out and will still shift pretty early.

 

Just try it and you'll see what we all mean!

 

Enjoy your new car.

 

Phil