Hi all.
Driving home from work yesterday evening I started pondering to myself. What do you think?
Back with my 140 bhp pd engine of my Passat the general consensus was to change gear at 3k region. This was deemed the most economical / performance dropping you to around 1800 which was still within boost. This was also the turbos sweet spot and was suppose to keep the turbo veins clear.
Now fast forwarding to the insignia. Mines a 2014 140bhp ecoflex diesel which has that fancy "change your gear now" thing on the display.
This prompts you to change in the 2000 -2500k region and drops to generally 1500 rpm. Which I feel is just ever so slightly before the turbo fully kicks in which leaves a slight pause when putting down the throttle.
Do you guys normally stick to this rmp or when do you normally change gear?
Driving home from work yesterday evening I started pondering to myself. What do you think?
Back with my 140 bhp pd engine of my Passat the general consensus was to change gear at 3k region. This was deemed the most economical / performance dropping you to around 1800 which was still within boost. This was also the turbos sweet spot and was suppose to keep the turbo veins clear.
Now fast forwarding to the insignia. Mines a 2014 140bhp ecoflex diesel which has that fancy "change your gear now" thing on the display.
This prompts you to change in the 2000 -2500k region and drops to generally 1500 rpm. Which I feel is just ever so slightly before the turbo fully kicks in which leaves a slight pause when putting down the throttle.
Do you guys normally stick to this rmp or when do you normally change gear?
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