My wife said no!

Caravanshaka · 09-18-2009, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Inspector71

I am trying real hard to contain my growing enthusiasm. That is the stage just before excitement. I keep telling myself, no way just in case. If this works out, you will hear a different attitude all the way. I have an old guy question. Years ago, when I bought a new car, the owner's manual always said not to drive it at a continuous speed for the first 600 miles. Obviously if I went to St. Louis, I would be coming back on highway 70, at a more or less continuous speed (70ish). I'm a middle aged guy now but I still love windy insane roads (I have driven in the Andes in Colombia...that is insane). Anything I would need to know about the break in? The one I drove had a really fast and short clutch which I would have to get used to... and I'd love every minute of it.

These new cars are generally broken in already at the factory. The testing they do at Nissan usually seats the rings and has the engine operating normally. However, Nissan recommends I believe a 1,200 mile break-in period that you keep the car running under 4k rpm. If I were you, I'd probably just vary the speed 5mph every 10 mins or so on the drive home, and don't push it too hard until after you reach 1,200 miles.

I'd also suggest doing an oil change after that break-in period to remove any metal shavings that may be circulating in the oil. Throw in a magnetic drain plug while you are at it, and make sure you keep an ester-based oil in the car(search ester oil in the forums if you don't know what I mean).

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