MK5 Golf GTI
General => Random Chat => Topic started by: damoegan on April 26, 2013, 09:37:28 pm
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Whats the score? Do I need to run in a new car/engine?
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I don't really bother to be honest. I have always driven mine as normal when new :evilgrin:
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That's what I was thinking and going to do :evilgrin:
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For the sake of the brakes bedding ect I'd take it easy for a few hundred miles then gun it always gunned all mine from new with no probs and been great on oil :popcornsoda:
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I don't really bother to be honest. I have always driven mine as normal when new :evilgrin:
Maybe that's why you blow em up :signLOL: :wink:
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Brakes should only take 20-30 miles to bed in :happy2: ...
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Worst ever iv'e got a new car thread. :P
There are plenty of different opinions on the internet on this subject. I have always kept revs below 3000RPM for the first 1000 miles with occasional quick blasts of higher revs and changing down early to give it a kick every now and then. You are also running in lots of other components as well, not just the engine. Even if you dont take care like T88OMM most people dont keep cars for more than 3 years nowadays to any problems will be a few owners down the feeding chain. :happy2:
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Worst ever iv'e got a new car thread. :P
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There are plenty of different opinions on the internet on this subject. I have always kept revs below 3000RPM for the first 1000 miles with occasional quick blasts of higher revs and changing down early to give it a kick every now and then. You are also running in lots of other components as well, not just the engine. Even if you dont take care like T88OMM most people dont keep cars for more than 3 years nowadays to any problems will be a few owners down the feeding chain. :happy2:
Yea TC, I've read most of then out there but most threads are like 6 years old now.
I will only have it 3 years max :happy2:
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Make / model?
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Worst ever iv'e got a new car thread. :P
Absolutely TC :laugh:
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Make / model?
mk5 Ibiza FR 1.4TSI, Dave..
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I'm having real trouble keeping my box fresh fezza 458 under 5000k..... What should I do?
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Take it easy first 500 miles or first 5 heat cycles then rag the sh*t out of it.
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I'm having real trouble keeping my box fresh fezza 458 under 5000k..... What should I do?
Wrong forum :laugh:
Troll??
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Take it steady for the first 1000 miles.Have you got the car yet
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Take it steady for the first 1000 miles.Have you got the car yet
Picked it up yesterday afternoon, Andy :happy2:
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Take it steady for the first 1000 miles.Have you got the car yet
Picked it up yesterday afternoon, Andy :happy2:
HO nice--you popping to the vag car meet on wednesday
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Wont have time mate, working all hours god sends over the next two weeks :sad1:
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Make / model?
mk5 Ibiza FR 1.4TSI, Dave..
Cool car (did I mention we sell oil, spark plugs, coilpacks and engine blocks :innocent: )
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So that covers all that engines problem then :signLOL:
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Always find these threads and everyone's points of view interesting. I recall many years ago going to the local Toyota plant and watching the new cars coming off the lines. Fluids pumped in at the end and final check done then the car is driven straight onto a rolling road for the final 'driven' test. It is then ragged to an inch of it's life before being driven off for the leak test. The way the drivers drive the cars from there to the parking lot is a good laugh too.
This is an engine that is run in at the factory for 1 hour in total before being placed in the car.
Keep in mind this is for Toyota's, the most reliable sewing machines in the industry.
Keeping this in mind, I wouldn't be too bothered. Engines are built to such tight tolerances these days, there's really no need to bed them in like the old days. I had a new car many years ago, drove it like I stole it from day 1 and it went on to cover over 200k miles and never had to replace or repair anything on it other than routine servicing. When I sold it, it was still running strong and not using any oil.