New vehicle has 5 engine idle hours

[billt460]

From what I've read, idling is bad for these new modern Diesel's. Because they regurgitate their exhaust, and that can cause the cats to clog.

Which in turn can lead to costly clean out procedures. Mainly because the exhaust gas temperature doesn't get high enough while idling. And all that soot has to go somewhere if it's not getting burned off inside the cats.

 

[IndyIan]

Agreed that sometimes more info is not better.

I would still do some decent engine braking sessions, some high-ish rpms, to break it in, get the rings to seal well.

 

[QwikKota]

My Wife was giving it the business during the test drive to see if it had any power. Towing our boat will probably be pretty rough on it but it will be a while before it sees the boat ramp and saltwater. Ram does that duty.

Would have been smart of the salesman to cool it down for when we arrived via appointment. I was worried it didn't have the greatest HVAC system but seems to be doing fine. Thank the Lord She didn't want a black vehicle.

 

[dbias]

The VW app for my GTI and Tiguan shows idle time as anything under two mph. My morning trip to get coffee this morning shows ten percent idle time for the trip and the drive thru was not that busy.

 

[wwillson]

It currently has 6 hours of idle time

My new 6.2L Tahoe had the same idle hours when I took delivery.

 

[oilboy123]

I worked in sales at a Ford dealer around 2001. My first day was on 9/11. We were told to go out and start all the vehicles pretty much every day.

 

[4wd]

@4wd may have some ideas about this.

It wasn’t me

 

[heavy260]

5 hours of idle is about 100 miles on the road in town. I wouldn’t worry about it.

 

[QwikKota]

Will forget about it and move on. A decent sized V8 using 0W-20 is probably a bigger concern, hah.

 

[E150GT]

i doubt its a big deal. My truck has 255k miles. 8000+ hours and 2500+ idle hours.