Hi people!

 

I read around on this forum, and for some time ago I read a long and pretty good post about how to drive in the car for the first 1000 kilometers or so. If I remember correcly it was most about how to drive in the engine, but most of the car also. 

 

Can anyone help me find this post?

:-D Look 2 posts above this one !!

Sorry - I didn't look at the pinned post's! Maybe I need to buy some glasses 

You can't beat the Rainmaker advice in the pinned posts.

Just drive normally but avoid full throttle and max revs for the first full hundred miles. Manufacturers also say to avoid laboring an engine when new but you should avoid laboring an engine at all times, use the gearbox, that why they give you one.

 

One fact people often forget is not to drive at a constant speed/revs for long distances with a new engine. For the first few hundred miles vary the speed/revs and engine load. Can be annoying if you mostly drive on the motorway but not impossible.

 

Used this method since 1984 with probably 14 or 15 new cars and never had any issues and oil consumption has always been negligible. If you read the manual its what manufacturers recommend. 

In all honesty any attempts to carefully run in the engine would have been cancelled out by the idiots who rag the cars around whilst loading and unloading at the docks as they are ragged around from cold without a care in the world. Those delivery miles have been very hard ones 

9 minutes ago, CWARD said:

In all honesty any attempts to carefully run in the engine would have been cancelled out by the idiots who rag the cars around whilst loading and unloading at the docks as they are ragged around from cold without a care in the world. Those delivery miles have been very hard ones 

 

There is one school of thought that suggests that ragging an engine from new is the quickest and best way to bed them in. But its best done when warmed up fully.

 

But in truth I am not going to worry about how the car is treated before I get it. If I was there would be not point in buying one. And it applies to all brands at all docks.

Personally I would just drive normally without trying to test the performance for the first 1000 mile and then have the oil and filter changed. The engineering tolerances are so high now that you don't really need to run an engine in but any bits that picked up in the oil need to be removed and I wouldn't leave it until the first service interval.