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I sit firmly in the camp of treating the car hard for the first 100 miles (after warming the engine up obviously) as it seats the piton rings in better, gives a lower oil useage and the car ultimately gives better performance over a gently ran in one.
VW like everyone to gently ease in the car over 1200 miles which means that the car uses more oil and ultimately doesn't reach peak performance for around 30k miles, but ultimately the engine tends to last a little longer. All good for VW, but not for the first owner
Hurdy wrote:I sit firmly in the camp of treating the car hard for the first 100 miles (after warming the engine up obviously) as it seats the piton rings in better, gives a lower oil useage and the car ultimately gives better performance over a gently ran in one.
VW like everyone to gently ease in the car over 1200 miles which means that the car uses more oil and ultimately doesn't reach peak performance for around 30k miles, but ultimately the engine tends to last a little longer. All good for VW, but not for the first owner
Yes agreed but takes some common sense as to how hard you are going to run the car since the clutch plates are still not bed in properly too!
Hurdy wrote:I sit firmly in the camp of treating the car hard for the first 100 miles (after warming the engine up obviously) as it seats the piton rings in better, gives a lower oil useage and the car ultimately gives better performance over a gently ran in one.
VW like everyone to gently ease in the car over 1200 miles which means that the car uses more oil and ultimately doesn't reach peak performance for around 30k miles, but ultimately the engine tends to last a little longer. All good for VW, but not for the first owner
Yes agreed but takes some common sense as to how hard you are going to run the car since the clutch plates are still not bed in properly too!
Yes, a degree of common sense was applied, no hard starts and full accelleration applied in only 2nd and 3rd gears to save on gearbox pressure on the clutches in the higher gears.
Hurdy wrote:I sit firmly in the camp of treating the car hard for the first 100 miles (after warming the engine up obviously) as it seats the piton rings in better, gives a lower oil useage and the car ultimately gives better performance over a gently ran in one.
VW like everyone to gently ease in the car over 1200 miles which means that the car uses more oil and ultimately doesn't reach peak performance for around 30k miles, but ultimately the engine tends to last a little longer. All good for VW, but not for the first owner
Yes agreed but takes some common sense as to how hard you are going to run the car since the clutch plates are still not bed in properly too!
Yes, a degree of common sense was applied, no hard starts and full accelleration applied in only 2nd and 3rd gears to save on gearbox pressure on the clutches in the higher gears.
Excellent work! For my previous new cars, I changed out the oil pretty quickly and replaced it with mineral 5w30 oils at 500km, 1000km, 3000km until 5000km. However, for TSI engines, I am not sure if this is advisable as the cheap mineral oil might be cooked?
kevinctr wrote:
Yes agreed but takes some common sense as to how hard you are going to run the car since the clutch plates are still not bed in properly too!
Yes, a degree of common sense was applied, no hard starts and full accelleration applied in only 2nd and 3rd gears to save on gearbox pressure on the clutches in the higher gears.
Excellent work! For my previous new cars, I changed out the oil pretty quickly and replaced it with mineral 5w30 oils at 500km, 1000km, 3000km until 5000km. However, for TSI engines, I am not sure if this is advisable as the cheap mineral oil might be cooked?
yeah, I've been reading on the oil consumption issues and decided to go "off-piste" and try some Mobil 1 0w40 synthetic once I've reached 200 miles and had the car mapped.
