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| mick Member Since: 08 Feb 2010 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 2109   
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Before I got the 130 I had a couple of VW transporters and a pal is head mechanic at VW and he told me to give it some boot to bed the valve seats in as they are so hard and that's why they use a fair bit of oil,
As for other makes not sure I give mine a fair bit of boot to get everything wound up on a daily basis but that's just me see an open road and off I go.  |
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22nd Mar 2011 10:25pm |
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| pannawonica Member Since: 21 Nov 2010 Location: Clackline Western Australia Posts: 568 
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Generally lightly loaded diesels have a tendancy to glaze up. This is usually evidenced through them blowing smoke away
from the traffic lights in the cityand using oil. Alot of these are Chelsea tractors as you might say. Making a diesel work under load the rings begin to bite in the bores preventing this. Indeed this is what the are for. However I don,t really know wether trashing the motor is actually a good thing! My TD5 Disco after a period of short runs always ran alot more sweetly after a long run loaded up.  |
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23rd Mar 2011 1:35am |
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| AndrewS Member Since: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Hereford Posts: 3707  
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I have driven diesels for years, vans and Land rovers, I average 30k - 40k per year. I am sympathetic to the engine but 'drive' them. I check the oil level and find that after the initial running in period I rarely have to add oil between services. 130's have feeling's as well you know
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23rd Mar 2011 1:52am |
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| T1G UP Member Since: 08 Dec 2009 Location: Bath Posts: 3101 
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when an engines new the rings need bedding in, but not under a massive ammount of load due to the bearings also being new.
So revs are ok, not high load when new. Very interesting thing when looking at warming an engine up. Watch the F1 engines when they start first time, loads of revs 10-15,000 rpm for a ew seconds, then they switch off! that lets the heat disipate through the block and al the mechanicalls evenly. Warming up and cooling down are very important but all my dervs get driven |
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23rd Mar 2011 8:41am |
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| noworries4x4 Member Since: 24 Dec 2010 Location: Newton Abbot Devon Posts: 1195
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Same here always drive nice and gently throught the village to warm it up and also wind down to cool the turbo down but always make it pull and work hard but i dont thrash it high revs very often, but foot to the floorboards up hills ect, When towing long distance i back off so as not to overheat turbo ect If everything is under control you are not going fast enough.
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23rd Mar 2011 8:53pm |
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