Engine Life

[S11EPS]

Then allow me to everyone's test bed!!!!

MY PD150 is 18 months old give or take a day or so, and has just shy of 50k miles on it. Based on my three year lease, I have it for another 18 months, which if my mileage stays constant, will give a final mileage in the region of 100k.

The car is always given a decent warm-up time before its given any stick, and a cool down period before shut-off, so I show diligence in looking after the turbo.

That said, once the temp needle hits 90 and we're good to go, it does get driven as the good Lord intended  

The mileage I cover is a good mix of town driving, high speed motorway stuff, and crawling through London, so I do a representative mileage sample, just at an accelerated rate.

My only problem so far is about to be fixed under warranty - a faulty expansion tank giving (false) low coolant readings, so the car beeps every so often telling me I'm all out of coolant, and to stop and consult handbook. I don't consider this a symptom of being a turbo charged engine, so we can ignore that!

I'll keep you all up to date as mileage increases.  

[antgti]

My PD 130 is 6 weeks old and the mileometer shows 5200 now.  So i should cover at least 40-45k this year.   I am confident that my diesel which is driven relatively hard will take it easily.  the interior is wearing very well. Engine wise, since new it has needed a little oil top up, but in general i let it warm up most mornings and give it 30 seconds idle ( iused to have punto GT turbo so iremember doing this all the time)  

the only thing i have noticed since i fot the car is it has got a little bit noisier on idle and that is it,

I'll let you now how it goes at each 10 k ( that'll be quick coming around)

[number_six]

There seems to be some very knowledgeable people on here.  Should I be worried about the following?
I arrived home from work tonight, sat in the car to allow it to settle down a bit, and whilst doing so I could hear a quiet tapping noise, a sort of clicking noise coming from the engine, I opened the bonnet and to hear it better, it was fairly quiet but noticeable.  Not sure if I'm just looking for faults all the time now or am I just being paranoid?

[gazzagtiT]

t reg now ive done 41,000 and should been serviced bout 2,000 miles ago i no it's naughty, an by what you guys are saying i'm treating my golf wic much respect am i? i'l get to it very soon i promise!! :'(

[spikey]

you may think this is a silly question but can the turbo give off a "fishy smell" if not left too idle after driving ?

[antgti]

Not really, Unless you are using recycled chip shop cooking oil as your engine oil!

[Franko180]

A bit late on the reply.. My last w-reg GTi 1.8t went back to the lease firm on 98700-ish miles.. I never had a proper engine or ECU issue ever apart from one which I caused myself.. Was giving it a real hammering, inducing wheel spin in 1st and 2nd to get it to understeer at a load of junctions (no traction control on that car). This caused massive wheel spin and ramping (where it bounces about at the front and makes a hammering sound like the dashboard is going to shake loose), anyway the result of this was that it suddenly cut out. To cut a long story short I'd made a pipe jump off the turbo and it wouldnt fire properly without it. So I dont count it as a fault as I caused it myself with hardcore driving (as a Max Power sticker used to say "DRIVE IT LIKE YOU HATE IT"!)

I didnt hate it, it was a company motor so i hammered it for near on 100,000 miles and the engine was solid!