3200 kms in 1st week of ownership of Scout

[ox518]

I hope you find it impressive... Dont forget to run it in properly .. dont molly coddle it or let it warm up idling.. you will glaze the bore.. drive it like you hate it.

Thanks mate. Do you mean drive the Scout TDI to hard in the first 1000KM or every time you jump in it?

[duderduderini]

http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/foru...tdi-70122.html
Thats the url of the thread in the diesel part of this forum. I remember I glazed the bore of my go kart rotax engine cause i uded to let it idle for 10 to 15 minutes every time.. Read the thread i referred to above. It seems the 1st 40 kms are important. The engine once warm of course needs to be loaded to allow the piston rings to bed into the bore. The rings do this because gases during combustion force the ring apart into the bore. Without too much load the ring does not bed in all the way round its circumference. So give it stick ie load it up go up steep hills. Perhaps someone could chime in as to how to achieve this in a dsg model. Whatever you do vary the revs.. constant revs is not what you are after for the first 200ks anyway cruise for a bit the slow down and then bring the revs up under load.
Please read the thread I mentioned .
Good luck I will be interested in reading your impressions of the scout. What did you have before it?
Nick