diff --git a/opm/autodiff/CPRPreconditioner.hpp b/opm/autodiff/CPRPreconditioner.hpp
index ceaba6de3..72c16656f 100644
--- a/opm/autodiff/CPRPreconditioner.hpp
+++ b/opm/autodiff/CPRPreconditioner.hpp
@@ -295,10 +295,10 @@ createEllipticPreconditionerPointer(const M& Ae, double relax,
         void reset()
         {
             cpr_relax_          = 1.0;
-            cpr_solver_tol_     = 1e-4;
+            cpr_solver_tol_     = 1e-2;
             cpr_ilu_n_          = 0;
-            cpr_max_ell_iter_   = 5000;
-            cpr_use_amg_        = false;
+            cpr_max_ell_iter_   = 25;
+            cpr_use_amg_        = true;
             cpr_use_bicgstab_   = true;
             cpr_solver_verbose_ = false;
         }
diff --git a/opm/autodiff/FullyImplicitBlackoilSolver_impl.hpp b/opm/autodiff/FullyImplicitBlackoilSolver_impl.hpp
index 90a8d8050..d870c57b3 100644
--- a/opm/autodiff/FullyImplicitBlackoilSolver_impl.hpp
+++ b/opm/autodiff/FullyImplicitBlackoilSolver_impl.hpp
@@ -145,11 +145,11 @@ namespace detail {
         relax_increment_ = 0.1;
         relax_rel_tol_   = 0.2;
         max_iter_        = 15; // not more then 15 its by default
-        min_iter_        = 0;  // keep the default as it was
-        max_residual_allowed_  = std::numeric_limits< double >::max();
-        tolerance_mb_    = 1.0e-7;
-        tolerance_cnv_   = 1.0e-3;
-        tolerance_wells_ = 1./Opm::unit::day;
+        min_iter_        = 1;  // Default to always do at least one nonlinear iteration.
+        max_residual_allowed_ = 1e5;
+        tolerance_mb_    = 1.0e-5;
+        tolerance_cnv_   = 1.0e-2;
+        tolerance_wells_ = 1.0e-2;
     }
 
     template<class T>
diff --git a/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilCPR.cpp b/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilCPR.cpp
index 7d14e7527..f38c85e5f 100644
--- a/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilCPR.cpp
+++ b/opm/autodiff/NewtonIterationBlackoilCPR.cpp
@@ -103,9 +103,9 @@ namespace Opm
       : cpr_param_( param ),
         iterations_( 0 ),
         parallelInformation_(parallelInformation),
-        newton_use_gmres_( param.getDefault("newton_use_gmres", true ) ),
-        linear_solver_reduction_( param.getDefault("linear_solver_reduction", 1e-3 ) ),
-        linear_solver_maxiter_( param.getDefault("linear_solver_maxiter", 150 ) ),
+        newton_use_gmres_( param.getDefault("newton_use_gmres", false ) ),
+        linear_solver_reduction_( param.getDefault("linear_solver_reduction", 1e-2 ) ),
+        linear_solver_maxiter_( param.getDefault("linear_solver_maxiter", 50 ) ),
         linear_solver_restart_( param.getDefault("linear_solver_restart", 40 ) ),
         linear_solver_verbosity_( param.getDefault("linear_solver_verbosity", 0 ))
     {
diff --git a/opm/autodiff/SimulatorFullyImplicitBlackoil_impl.hpp b/opm/autodiff/SimulatorFullyImplicitBlackoil_impl.hpp
index e963f425a..2df70b396 100644
--- a/opm/autodiff/SimulatorFullyImplicitBlackoil_impl.hpp
+++ b/opm/autodiff/SimulatorFullyImplicitBlackoil_impl.hpp
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ namespace Opm
 
         // adaptive time stepping
         std::unique_ptr< AdaptiveTimeStepping > adaptiveTimeStepping;
-        if( param_.getDefault("timestep.adaptive", bool(false) ) )
+        if( param_.getDefault("timestep.adaptive", true ) )
         {
             adaptiveTimeStepping.reset( new AdaptiveTimeStepping( param_ ) );
         }