It's so hard to find a manual to test drive :mad:
I ordered my car mid July and have to wait till mid nov and who knows if it will come the day the said..
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It's so hard to find a manual to test drive :mad:
I ordered my car mid July and have to wait till mid nov and who knows if it will come the day the said..
just quickly update, picked up my car this morning. love it!! Still trying to understand all the function on the car.....
will upload pics when I go back to Canberra.
Congrats!! Hope you enjoyed the drive home! :D
Lucky you. I get mine in a couple of days.Cant Wait.
We bought our old Mk4 GTI in Sydney all those years ago. Driving it home was half the fun. As noted, don't use cruise control, or, if you do, just make sure you vary the speed/gears/engine revs so that it's not cruising at the same speed all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by ox518
Maybe take a detour off the Federal Highway as well. If you have the time take the coast road through Nowra and up the Clyde. You don't have to push it, but working the engine over (without hitting redline) is no bad thing.
I picked up my new car last Saturday and spent Sunday driving around Cotter/Tidbinbilla. Racked up 270-odd kilometres and gave the car a thorough workout. The thrashings on the same roads can't come soon enough, haha.
As a closing comment, and YMMV, I don't think running in new car engines is the science it once was. For example, you could probably drive it like you stole it from day one and not do too much damage (so long as you give the engine time to warm up first, of course!).
Enjoy! :banana:
There is one opinion that the best run-in procedure for a new car IS to thrash it. This should only be done once the car is warmed up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lima
The two worse things you can do during this initial phase is to idle for too long (never idle a car to warm it up) and drive in peak hour traffic.
I have used this method for running in my Astra SRI and the current Polo. In fact the run in procedure for the Polo consisted of a 800km run up the Oxley highway :) Car now runs very well and has very little oil usage between service and no gearbox issues.
Makes sense to me.
And the warming up part is interesting too. The oil temp on the S3 can be checked relatively easily through the DIS on the dash. When fully warm, the temp will be somewhere around 90°, although it gets a bit higher if you're pushing a bit harder.
I live 13km from work and these past few days have had temps below freezing overnight. By the time I finish my 15-20 minute commute to work the oil temp is struggling to make 80°.
Will be interesting to see how that compares in the warmer months.
sillygogo - I was interested in your original post, which I missed first time round. I have test driven the golf with the sports pack and have not tried it without - with handling in mind.
I thought the sports pack car drove really well, but I thought the extra $1700 (give or take) for the pack was a lot.
I don't know how much the tyres affect the ride versus the sports suspension. I also have no idea what it would cost to upgrade just the wheels to 17".
The sports pack seems very popular - alot of the (few) golf 6's I see around have it.
Have you grown to like your normal suspension car?
I think if they were able to fit a VW adaptive control in your car, it would be very expensive as an after fitment. Have you thought about just changing the suspension over to a Bilstein PSS9 or something like that? Sometimes just a firmer damper/shock absorber will just absorb that rebound so you get better road holding. I personally find Bilsteins the best compromise - not too harsh, but Konis tend to be too hard in my opinion. Good luck.
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Originally Posted by ox518
Running my car in at the moment and I read your suggestion not to use cruise control. Whilst in principle it makes sense, if you have the DSG you can readily vary the RPM with cruise control engaged at a constant speed. I would have thought using the Tiptronic mode to regularly change between 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th gears (and for instance doubling the RPM at a constant speed) would be as beneficial if not better than simply driving in freeway traffic at 100kph +/-5 with cruise control off. So to my way of thinking constant RPM is the no no. As long as you vary the revs - using the CRZ control is OK. Any way just a thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by mtj007