break in period?
03-30-2006, 02:37 AM
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RE: break in period?
ORIGINAL: bscottie
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This is how you will mess up your car if you dont properly break it in. I got my car with 4 miles on it, and even though its only at 700 I still dont feel like its properly broken in yet to be going around doing stupid ****.
03-30-2006, 02:52 AM
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RE: break in period?
pg. 5 owners manual
Breaking-In Your Vehicle
"Your vehicle does not require an extensive break-in. Try not to drive continuously at the same speed for the first 1000 miles of new operation. Vary your speed frequently in order to give the moving parts a chance to break-in." be comftable in however you choose to "break-in" your vehicle, at the very least follow the guidelines of the owner manual, which I don't believe has many restrictions.
Breaking-In Your Vehicle
"Your vehicle does not require an extensive break-in. Try not to drive continuously at the same speed for the first 1000 miles of new operation. Vary your speed frequently in order to give the moving parts a chance to break-in." be comftable in however you choose to "break-in" your vehicle, at the very least follow the guidelines of the owner manual, which I don't believe has many restrictions.
03-30-2006, 04:10 AM
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RE: break in period?
I think both bscottie and whatdaproblemis are right.
You don't want to be redlining your engine right from the start. I waited a good couple thousand miles before I really started launching hard and shifting up in the 5's (and even now, it's only on rare occasions).
However, if you drive at the same conservative speed and rpm's all the time in the beginning, you run the risk of your engine "learning" to stay in those ranges. I say "learning" in quotes because I don't have the technical know-how to explain exactly why this happens (any comments, blackfoot? you're the jargon master!).
I'd say if you vary your speeds and take care not to go overboard, you should be free to play around a little bit even in the first thousand miles. Have fun!
Tim
You don't want to be redlining your engine right from the start. I waited a good couple thousand miles before I really started launching hard and shifting up in the 5's (and even now, it's only on rare occasions).
However, if you drive at the same conservative speed and rpm's all the time in the beginning, you run the risk of your engine "learning" to stay in those ranges. I say "learning" in quotes because I don't have the technical know-how to explain exactly why this happens (any comments, blackfoot? you're the jargon master!).
I'd say if you vary your speeds and take care not to go overboard, you should be free to play around a little bit even in the first thousand miles. Have fun!
Tim
03-30-2006, 05:13 AM
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RE: break in period?
first day i had my car i drove from riverhead,ny 2 where i got it from all the way 2 jfk airport,ny 2 pick my bro up for a wake i had 2 go 2 for my cousin... so the speeds changed a lot that day, lol frm highway to city... stop and go... omg it was annoying... i really miss my new car smell 
nothing beats the real new car smell, lol...
a lot of driving was done ... then 2 days later my car bumper got scrapped when it was parked and i was very mad... i hate driving in the city....
nothing beats the real new car smell, lol...a lot of driving was done ... then 2 days later my car bumper got scrapped when it was parked and i was very mad... i hate driving in the city....
03-30-2006, 05:41 AM
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RE: break in period?
best thing to do for the motor is slowly cruise up to higher speeds and let of the gas altogether and let car coast and the motor wind down and then repeat, eample: accelerate to 55 coast down to 35 accelerate back to 65 coast down to 50. Stay of cruise control for a while and stay away from running the same rpm for any long period of times. A good break in for the engine will involve alot of back compression as your coasting down from a higher speed. let those rings work the cylinder walls. it should be like sex for the first time. slow and genlte, the more you do it the rougher you can get until your pounding it.
i did say tear it up!
i did say tear it up!
03-30-2006, 10:22 AM
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