Thanks monkeyhanger. I've been doing a mixture of town driving, as we actually live in a town and then 50mph A roads, then bit more town (well village) driving, then A road, then town...ok you get my drift (its the school run, but a long one!). Done a couple of motorway trips of 10 miles each, speeds up to 60-70mph there.
Nearly on 400 miles now. Checking for oil consumption; none as yet and I never thrash a cold engine ever.
Before taking delivery I read this:
https://www.theaa.com/car-buying/running-in-a-new-carI reckon the AA must know a thing or two about cars and problems with cars, so I have followed this to the letter. All good so far. I'd rather keep it to max 3,000rpm as they recommend. If you look at what they say about petrol engines, it does indeed say rev to 4,000rpm when reaching 500-600 miles, but only to 3,000rpm before this mileage.
I appreciate your staple diet of VW's! I'm guessing (only guessing) your present car is your favorite of all, the R? Interesting about the ESSO tiger
fuel, I've always thought Shell to be the best, with BP fairly close to it..