Brand New Aygo

[TheDude]

I decided to buy a new car and it was love at first sight when my eyes caught Aygo. I was surprised at how well it drives and how much space the driver has (i'm 6-6 so you can imagine :D ). Aygo will be ready by wednesday and after that I know I'm going to be a proud owner. The problem is this is going to be only my second car, the previous one was Renault Clio and it was second hand so I've never had a chance to have a new car by myself.

What worries me is the engine at start as I know i shouldn't go really hard on it and frankly I think i might be too paranoid about it but my Aygo won't feature the RPM meter and everybody keeps telling me: "just don't put it over 2k RPM for the first 1.5k miles and it should be fine". There's quite a trip comming up aswell as I'm going skiing in 2 weeks. The car won't have enough mileage for the first service so my question to you would be: Can i drive this trip of 300 miles to some ski resort where it's going to be about -10°C and the road to get there will feature some hills?

I know i'm being quite paranoid but i don't want to be torturing the engine going uphill in the second gear with some luggage in it and 2 passengers. Also I will be driving it every day there and I hope the cold weather won't be too much for the little Aygo as it's going to be brand new still by then.

Thanks in advance :)

[daveyjp]

Don't give it too many revs for extended periods of time, but ensure it gets regular workouts.

With no rev counter simply follow: 10 mph 1st, 20mph 2nd, 30mph 3rd 40mph 4th 50mph 5th and you won't go far wrong.

[s m smith]

I decided to buy a new car and it was love at first sight when my eyes caught Aygo. I was surprised at how well it drives and how much space the driver has (i'm 6-6 so you can imagine :D ). Aygo will be ready by wednesday and after that I know I'm going to be a proud owner. The problem is this is going to be only my second car, the previous one was Renault Clio and it was second hand so I've never had a chance to have a new car by myself.

What worries me is the engine at start as I know i shouldn't go really hard on it and frankly I think i might be too paranoid about it but my Aygo won't feature the RPM meter and everybody keeps telling me: "just don't put it over 2k RPM for the first 1.5k miles and it should be fine". There's quite a trip comming up aswell as I'm going skiing in 2 weeks. The car won't have enough mileage for the first service so my question to you would be: Can i drive this trip of 300 miles to some ski resort where it's going to be about -10°C and the road to get there will feature some hills?

I know i'm being quite paranoid but i don't want to be torturing the engine going uphill in the second gear with some luggage in it and 2 passengers. Also I will be driving it every day there and I hope the cold weather won't be too much for the little Aygo as it's going to be brand new still by then.

Thanks in advance :)

just use as normal, dont over rev and dont let it labour, you will no no when the engine is not happy at both situations

[adilmon]

Or buy a SCANGAUGE II, take 30 seconds to get it out of the box and plug it in. You'll get a digital rev counter, air inlet temperature, coolant temperature, Battery voltage and much more.

Dont forget snow tyres. I went to Val D'isere and I saw an Aygo black with them on.

The 2009 Aygo uses 0W20 engine oil, so the oil gets to work quickly on cold starts

[igo-ugo-wego]

I decided to buy a new car and it was love at first sight when my eyes caught Aygo. I was surprised at how well it drives and how much space the driver has (i'm 6-6 so you can imagine :D ). Aygo will be ready by wednesday and after that I know I'm going to be a proud owner. The problem is this is going to be only my second car, the previous one was Renault Clio and it was second hand so I've never had a chance to have a new car by myself.

What worries me is the engine at start as I know i shouldn't go really hard on it and frankly I think i might be too paranoid about it but my Aygo won't feature the RPM meter and everybody keeps telling me: "just don't put it over 2k RPM for the first 1.5k miles and it should be fine". There's quite a trip comming up aswell as I'm going skiing in 2 weeks. The car won't have enough mileage for the first service so my question to you would be: Can i drive this trip of 300 miles to some ski resort where it's going to be about -10°C and the road to get there will feature some hills?

I know i'm being quite paranoid but i don't want to be torturing the engine going uphill in the second gear with some luggage in it and 2 passengers. Also I will be driving it every day there and I hope the cold weather won't be too much for the little Aygo as it's going to be brand new still by then.

Thanks in advance :)

lol i wudnt even worry bout that. i know u have gotta drive nicely in it for a while but il be honest when i got my 1st aygo (brand new) i didnt even kno bout driving it in for 1.5k miles and just drove normally, 70-80mph on motorways (which is wat i drive every day for 60miles) and it was absolutely fine :)

[TheDude]

thanks a lot for the info, I just want to make sure to get there safe. Any other problems that might come up when i get back i'm sure Mr. T will take care of them :)

[zakelwe]

Just thrash the nuts off it after you have changed to a quality oil such as Mobil 1

It's the clutch that seems to be having more issues rather than the engine.

Regards

Andy