over reving

[Smee]

a little off topic i spose...

what happens if u over a rev a car???

and would u say u might of caused damage if u come off a round about in 2nd shift for 3rd on full steam miss the gear and then rev round to 5500rpm

seems to be driving ok.. and i worry to much but thought id make sure

Smee

 

[IainW]

I mis-shifted into 6th the other week when overtaking on a dual carriageway and after a minor panic, there didn't appear to be any problems and I stopped worrying.

 

[Smee]

glad im not the only one...

i blaim my self for only having 4 hours sleep lol

Smee

 

[Ruddmeister]

If you beat the rev limiter say changing down and over revving on the petrol 1.8T it logs the over revving in the ECU with a code saying **warranty invalid engine over rev** or something similar

Diesels may be different

 

[Smee]

lol tell me ur joking...

Smee

 

[Ruddmeister]

lol tell me ur joking...

Smee

I can tell you that if you want......... but it's true

 

[Smee]

does vag com find it and can u not reset it with that??

smee

 

[Ruddmeister]

does vag com find it and can u not reset it with that??

smee

Here's the code, only seen it once on an LCR

17968 P1560 Maximum Engine Speed Exceeded

As I say Diesels may be different

 

[Smee]

nice

thanks for the imput mate

Smee

 

[Ruddmeister]

does vag com find it and can u not reset it with that??

smee

Yes I also know of another forum members car that had the same code deleted with VAGCOM

 

[Ruddmeister]

nice

thanks for the imput mate

Smee

Sure the message says Warranty Void as well as the above code

Long time ago now and I'm getting old tho

 

[EdButler]

You should be fine mate, the rev limiter and red line on a diesel is more because they are completely useless power wise at those speeds to theres basically no point taking them there... Dissimilar to a petrol, where its there as a safeguard for the moving parts exceeding their rated speed.

Diesels will still be as balanced and durable to revs as a slow-ish petrol engine so you should be fine. There will probably be a fault code though, which you an remove within about 10secs!

Just chill out with the gear changes; faster changes barely speed you up day-to-day. Also the selectors, as a few people on here have proved, are not the cars strongest feature.

 

[muddyboots]

Damn you Ed, beaten me to a techy reply again

I didn't think the "max engine speed exceeded" fault could be cleared with vag-com though

 

[EdButler]

Damn you Ed, beaten me to a techy reply again

I didn't think the "max engine speed exceeded" fault could be cleared with vag-com though

Hehe sorry Muddy, we both seem to reply to threads in bursts, strangely during work time

Yeah you can clear it... I did it twice, once a 1.2 Petrol and a 1.9TDi 130, both after theyd just been into the stealers... Just log into the engine block and its there in big caps, it deletes just like any other codes.

 

[NeilW]

Yes I also know of another forum members car that had the same code deleted with VAGCOM

No prizes for guessing who that was...........

 

[Triple D]

IIRC J@MES had that over rev engine speed code come up after he did 160 in his LCR, it also came up with warranty invalid on it aswell, think he deleated it.

 

[dasmith83]

would that've come up on mine wen it went into "limp" mode?