This is the day
14 June 2000 | 11:13 AM
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This is the day I have been waiting for. This evening I pick up my P1. It is a little sad however that this should happen on the day when there is clearly so much unease from members on this board. One of the reasons I choose this car is exactly because of the people who are part of this board. It's because of your knowledge, help, friendship and not least your enormous ENTHUSIASM for these cars.
I have not been a member for that long. If I am part of the problem then I appologise. I am trying to learn and be part of a community.
Moving on, does anyone have any tips for the first few miles? I have read the threads on running in etc. I know like any car to respect the brakes and tyres to start off with. I know not to crash it and not to let the wife drive it on her own
Any other advise greatfully received.
One further question, does the public have access to my details (address) if it knows my reg number? Some stuff in the weekend papers on Rolls Royce ownership got me thinking that all this data is available from DVLA.
John
I have not been a member for that long. If I am part of the problem then I appologise. I am trying to learn and be part of a community.
Moving on, does anyone have any tips for the first few miles? I have read the threads on running in etc. I know like any car to respect the brakes and tyres to start off with. I know not to crash it and not to let the wife drive it on her own
Any other advise greatfully received.
One further question, does the public have access to my details (address) if it knows my reg number? Some stuff in the weekend papers on Rolls Royce ownership got me thinking that all this data is available from DVLA.
John
14 June 2000 | 11:26 AM
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John
Welcome to Impreza ownership!
As far as the availability of your personal data goes, I believe there is no way that someone can tie your reg number to your address. DVLA to sell some information but I believe that they do not sell enough that someone could find out what you drive and where you live.
The DVLA website does have some info on privacy of data (sorry, can't remember the URL) so I wouldn't worry, just enjoy your new baby...
Welcome to Impreza ownership!
As far as the availability of your personal data goes, I believe there is no way that someone can tie your reg number to your address. DVLA to sell some information but I believe that they do not sell enough that someone could find out what you drive and where you live.
The DVLA website does have some info on privacy of data (sorry, can't remember the URL) so I wouldn't worry, just enjoy your new baby...
14 June 2000 | 11:28 AM
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John,
I hope you enjoy your P1 it is certainly worth the wait. I'm currently keeping under under 4k revs and avoiding sudden braking or acceleration whilst running my new P1 in.
As for your information being available to the public from the DVLA this is a definite no no. Companies can pay to access vehicle details for a given reg no (starting to be a common approach for insurance quotations) but they cannot get any personal details.
I hope you enjoy your P1 it is certainly worth the wait. I'm currently keeping under under 4k revs and avoiding sudden braking or acceleration whilst running my new P1 in.
As for your information being available to the public from the DVLA this is a definite no no. Companies can pay to access vehicle details for a given reg no (starting to be a common approach for insurance quotations) but they cannot get any personal details.
14 June 2000 | 11:28 AM
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John,
Just got mine at the weekend there - loving it so far!
Anyway, to answer your running in questions, I think you've pretty much covered it yourself. I mailed Prodrive to enquire if there was anything special that needed to be done for the car, and the answer is not really. To summarise, they stated pretty much what you already know:
- Don't labour the engine in too high a gear, or put excessive load on it.
- Don't try to make it accelerate (to any significant degree) from below 2000rpm.
- Don't use full throttle (to paraphrase them, "It's plenty quick enough on part throttle"
)
- No constant high engine speeds over 4000rpm
- Make sure it's fully warmed before using any significant boost.
Having said all that, they also noted that if you are <I>too</I> gentle, then all it does is slow down the bedding in time.
Finally, as anyone who has owned a Scoob before will testify, they do improve significantly as miles are put on.
Re the brakes, on the Alcon upgrade I got, there were bedding in instructions with the kit. Briefly these were 10-15 stops from 60 to almost zero using light pressure, then repeat from 70 using increasing pressure.
Hope that lot helps...
Cheers
Alastair
PS - The DVLA site mentioned is at
Just got mine at the weekend there - loving it so far!
Anyway, to answer your running in questions, I think you've pretty much covered it yourself. I mailed Prodrive to enquire if there was anything special that needed to be done for the car, and the answer is not really. To summarise, they stated pretty much what you already know:
- Don't labour the engine in too high a gear, or put excessive load on it.
- Don't try to make it accelerate (to any significant degree) from below 2000rpm.
- Don't use full throttle (to paraphrase them, "It's plenty quick enough on part throttle"
)- No constant high engine speeds over 4000rpm
- Make sure it's fully warmed before using any significant boost.
Having said all that, they also noted that if you are <I>too</I> gentle, then all it does is slow down the bedding in time.
Finally, as anyone who has owned a Scoob before will testify, they do improve significantly as miles are put on.
Re the brakes, on the Alcon upgrade I got, there were bedding in instructions with the kit. Briefly these were 10-15 stops from 60 to almost zero using light pressure, then repeat from 70 using increasing pressure.
Hope that lot helps...
Cheers
Alastair
PS - The DVLA site mentioned is at
14 June 2000 | 11:51 AM
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This is taken from the DVLA site:
Enquiries By Letter:
Previous keeper details
If you are the current keeper you can get information about any earlier keepers on application. You should write to: Vehicle Record Enquiries, Vehicle Customer
Services, DVLA, Swansea SA99 1AJ quoting the registration number of the vehicle and giving the reasons for your request. A fee of £5 is payable.
Release of another vehicle’s keeper details
You can obtain the name and address of the registered keeper of a vehicle if you can show reasonable cause for needing the information.
Members of the public will need to complete form V888. Companies should complete form VQ3 , or apply in writing (both forms are available from DVLA). You should
include a fee of £2.50, the vehicle registration number of the vehicle you are requesting information on, full reason for your request and the date of event.
Send your application to: Vehicle Record Enquiries, Vehicle Customer Services, DVLA, Swansea SA99 1AJ.
Enquiries By Letter:
Previous keeper details
If you are the current keeper you can get information about any earlier keepers on application. You should write to: Vehicle Record Enquiries, Vehicle Customer
Services, DVLA, Swansea SA99 1AJ quoting the registration number of the vehicle and giving the reasons for your request. A fee of £5 is payable.
Release of another vehicle’s keeper details
You can obtain the name and address of the registered keeper of a vehicle if you can show reasonable cause for needing the information.
Members of the public will need to complete form V888. Companies should complete form VQ3 , or apply in writing (both forms are available from DVLA). You should
include a fee of £2.50, the vehicle registration number of the vehicle you are requesting information on, full reason for your request and the date of event.
Send your application to: Vehicle Record Enquiries, Vehicle Customer Services, DVLA, Swansea SA99 1AJ.
14 June 2000 | 11:59 AM
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Are you worried about security?
I am, My advice to you would be get yourself another e-mail address that doesn't use your surname. I think it would be easy to work out where you live from your profile, it would certainly be easy to find me if I used mine!
The Jackal a.k.a (RichB somewhere in the UK)
I am, My advice to you would be get yourself another e-mail address that doesn't use your surname. I think it would be easy to work out where you live from your profile, it would certainly be easy to find me if I used mine!
The Jackal a.k.a (RichB somewhere in the UK)
14 June 2000 | 11:59 AM
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And a reasonable request is that...
'someone hit my car and didn't give me their correct address details for the insurance'.
Pretty straighforward really - and you really think some YOP scheme clerk in Swansea is going to check?
By the way, I did exactly that and a policeman used a PNC check to give me the drivers name and home address details.
Enjoy your P1, make sure you use SUL - it's expensive but worth it.
R
PS All this debate recently - yeah this board can be really annoying, or really great - what get's me is all this superiority complex (I'm better than the people on this BBS so I'm leaving) leading to much public chest beating.
Hey, this is society - live with it.
'someone hit my car and didn't give me their correct address details for the insurance'.
Pretty straighforward really - and you really think some YOP scheme clerk in Swansea is going to check?
By the way, I did exactly that and a policeman used a PNC check to give me the drivers name and home address details.
Enjoy your P1, make sure you use SUL - it's expensive but worth it.
R
PS All this debate recently - yeah this board can be really annoying, or really great - what get's me is all this superiority complex (I'm better than the people on this BBS so I'm leaving) leading to much public chest beating.
Hey, this is society - live with it.
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14 June 2000 | 08:54 PM
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john, welcome to owning an impreza, and a P1 at that, fantastic.
As to running the car in i have a sugestion.
Give me the keys and i will return it in exactly 27 hours with 1274 miles on the clock, end of running in period.
seriously, the most important tip is to not let the engine labour, it is better to drop down a gear and use light throttle than use a higher gear and feel the engine struggleing.
Try and avoid using any booste in the first 200 miles in particular, again light throttle is the key, turbo engines produce booste on demand, what i mean by that is that on low throttle openings the requirement from the engine for air is low and the turbo wont see any real demand to produce booste. On full throttle opening the turbo tries to booste/spool up to fill the demand. Turbos dont react mainly to revs but to demand, its hard to explain but i hope you get the idea.
Enjoy the car.
As to running the car in i have a sugestion.
Give me the keys and i will return it in exactly 27 hours with 1274 miles on the clock, end of running in period.
seriously, the most important tip is to not let the engine labour, it is better to drop down a gear and use light throttle than use a higher gear and feel the engine struggleing.
Try and avoid using any booste in the first 200 miles in particular, again light throttle is the key, turbo engines produce booste on demand, what i mean by that is that on low throttle openings the requirement from the engine for air is low and the turbo wont see any real demand to produce booste. On full throttle opening the turbo tries to booste/spool up to fill the demand. Turbos dont react mainly to revs but to demand, its hard to explain but i hope you get the idea.
Enjoy the car.
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