How strict did you adhere to the 1,200 mile break in period??

mick

I keep on getting passed on the freeway by toyota priuses, that's how strictly i adhere to the 1,200 mile break in period

shabarivas

... people... drive your cars like you will drive them everyday... if you are buying a DD... then yes adhere to the manual... if you plan on tracking / racing / weekend cruising your car... then do some research and do what you think is right. Its enough to say that there are just as many people like me who believe the break in should be done with the RPMs all over the place in all gears and there's people who think staying off the gas is the best way to jostle all those iron filings out of their engine. This issue will be beaten to death a million times before you find one way is more correct than the other. there is a reason race cars are broken in on a dyno... I tried my best to copy what they do on the dyno on my local roads.... some people get peace of mind from following that little book...

wait are we talking about christianity or the Z? Lol anyhow - my belief is that both those books need to be taken w/ several grains of salt lol...

SophiaZ

I wasn't worried about the break in period.....I got that thing runnin like mad the next day I bought it! But maybe that's becuz during my test-drive, the salesman told me to gun it..and I did. I new that I was buying it anyway and it is under warranty on top of the platinum warranty I bought I don't adhere to any break in period

SophiaZ

hehe..s'all good!

dalparadise

Made it to 1140 or so and couldn't take it anymore.

That sweet cacophony of mechanical maelstrom was worth every second I waited.

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Urbanracer

I have four friends that are mechanics for Ford, Subaru, and Honda. They all agree that break-in is just a bunch of meaningless words in the manual. They recommend driving it that way you normally would.

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SophiaZ

\ exactly!

mick

yeah but there's a conflict of interest in their opinion: they are mechanics who make money by fixing cars -- so maybe they tell people to disregard the break in recommendation for their own interest and not for the car owners' interest

Urbanracer

Yeah thats it, LOL If they saw you coming they'd tell you that the break-in is the most tender moment in a cars life......then laugh when you walked away. I've know most of these guys for at least the last 10 years and one for the better part of the last 25, I can personally atest that the engines they have built for their personal cars haven't received any special 1200 mile "break-in" period. People should drive more and worry less.

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IDZRVIT

And they are just that, mechanics, not engineers - there is a (big) difference. I'm sure the courses auto manufactuerers offer to their mechanics don't have the instructors telling them to tell their customers to ignore the owner's manual and just drive it the way you want to from the get go. Now really think hard about this, if it were true, then the owner's manual would state that a break-in period is not required, yes?

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Urbanracer

How do you know that a engineer wrote that and not a lawyer. Nissan might want you to get used to the car so you don't wreck it the first week you have it.

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IDZRVIT

Now think really hard again..............

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Urbanracer

I was refuring to a persons driving habits, not the engine, i kinda thought that was clear in the first 4 posts. By now.

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370Zsteve

Oh a big +1 rep

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370Zsteve

But mechanics are the guys who always finished at the botom of the class.

Next time listen to the engineers who designed it.

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