What's the recommendation on engine brake in on a new Vrs tdi engine?

My dealers advice was to drive as you normally do from day one. I have done 1000km in mine but haven't stretched it's legs too much.

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It says in the manual

 

If you go steady and don't thrash it for the first few thousand miles or do any heavy towing everything will be fine. The average Joe doesn't give a monkeys about any break in period.

 

While I was looking round my local skoda dealer I noticed a salesman jumping in a brand new Octavia VRS petrol. He proceeded to thrash it out of the carpark from cold and while it sounded nice with a nice pop from the exhaust i'm pretty sure he wasn't adhering to the break in period.

 

What a knob.

Edited 24 January, 201610 yr by SuperbTWM

Keep it under 3k revs for the first few hundred miles should do it.

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It says in the manual

If you go steady and don't thrash it for the first few thousand miles or do any heavy towing everything will be fine. The average Joe doesn't give a monkeys about any break in period.

While I was looking round my local skoda dealer I noticed a salesman jumping in a brand new Octavia VRS petrol. He proceeded to thrash it out of the carpark from cold and while it sounded nice with a nice pop from the exhaust i'm pretty sure he wasn't adhering to the break in period.

What a knob.

Anyone that does that to a car shouldn't be let near one!!

Yeah short shift for a coupla three hundred but, after that drive it like you just stole it, seals the bores and rings well.  Take it too easy on them and you'll forever topping up the oil.

 

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T

Are all new engines not pre "drove in" in the factory. I think it is a thing from the past where you have to take it handy for the first 1k or so due to the improvements of oils ect. That being said when I pick me new motor( soon I hope

I'll be keeping her under the 3k revs.

Are all new engines not pre "drove in" in the factory. I think it is a thing from the past where you have to take it handy for the first 1k or so due to the improvements of oils ect. That being said when I pick me new motor( soon I hope

 

Agree...

 

Maybe 20 years ago you would run a engine in but not today, lubricants and engines have moved on since then.  Never had any issues and I have twincharger at the moment and drove it normal from day 1. I will drive my new VRS the same way.

 

PS do let the tyres bed in for a couple of hundred miles.

Edited 25 January, 201610 yr by pkoconnor

Agree...

 

Maybe 20 years ago you would run a engine in but not today, lubricants and engines have moved on since then.  Never had any issues and I have twincharger at the moment and drove it normal from day 1. I will drive my new VRS the same way.

 

PS do let the tyres bed in for a couple of hundred miles.

Turn the traction control off for the first 20 miles with new tyres and drive like you just stole it but, do be aware, it's gonna be LIVELY

My FR and VRS 184s were both driven normally from day dot. Didn't get thrashed when they were cold but extended when needed otherwise. I didn't take it to any extremes of the rev range for the first thousand or so but above 3500 was done regularly.

I think one thing with the running in is that it's not clocking it up at one part of the rev range - like doing a motorway cruise in top gear. Vary the revs and it will be fine.

Its actually quite hard to properly thrash the TDI 184 anyway.

It has a max engine speed of 5200rpm before the soft limiter cuts in....prsk power is 4k and you can bearly rev to 4.5k without feeling like youve lost all go.

They dont really need any kind of running in, just the usual mechanical sympathy of not hard revving a stone cold engine if you can help it will be enough.

I had a few 1.9 CDTI 150hp Astras back in the day and they had quite a natty 3k rpm soft limiter until the engine was up to an acceptable temperature from what I remember...after a couple of mins you could exploit full revs...but again they revved to 5k rpm but had little or no go past 4.

Edited 25 January, 201610 yr by pipsypreturns

My FR and VRS 184s were both driven normally from day dot. Didn't get thrashed when they were cold but extended when needed otherwise. I didn't take it to any extremes of the rev range for the first thousand or so but above 3500 was done regularly.

I think one thing with the running in is that it's not clocking it up at one part of the rev range - like doing a motorway cruise in top gear. Vary the revs and it will be fine.

 

You have just about summed it up I think, new engines shouldn't be plodding along at low revs, they do need to be opened up, but if you buy one with delivery mileage its probably a bad idea to take it straight to a track and trash its nuts off.

 

My car was ex-demo and you can bet your life savings it has been hammered by the salesman who used it and booted every day by potential customers, unfortunately though it didn't bed in that sticky lifter.....