Scirocco Central

Morning,

Just had my new Sirocco R delivered... very happy!

Its only just occurred to me that I have never actually owned a new car and had to 'break one in'.

I've had a search online but can't seem to find any actual VW 'approved' information, just lots of conflicting forum posts!

So, what's the crack? 3-4k revs, plenty of town driving, 50% throttle, make sure the engine gets up to temperature each journey... all of this for 500-1000 miles?

Cheers,

Olly

It tells you in the owners manual.

Key things are to vary engine speed, avoid full throttle and don't let the engine labour for the first 500 or so miles.

When I had my first ever brand new car, I was told to drive it from day one as you intend to drive it every day after...

So I did - and always have done with every new car since and never had any issues.

Unless advised by the manufacturer, do what you think is best...

I don't think cars need "running in" as such like the old days. I think aslong as you allow it to warm up and cool down properly etc, youll be fine. Engines will be run up on an engine dyno anyway I would have thought

Thanks for the responses, I've just been out for about 60 miles this afternoon and thoroughly enjoyed myself (I live round the lakes in Cumbria).

Only hit 4k revs and 60% throttle, I'll take it up gradually for piece of mind.

Cheers.

I would drive it as you would normally.
Running them in "hard" is generally beneficial. As long as they are up to temperature then no issues. They are all taken to redline on dyno at Factory anyway.