RatedR
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I know there are probably many opinions on this, but this 10 minute video from Road & Track ( http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-cul...e/videos/a31398/best-way-to-break-in-new-car/ ) pretty much mimics what I was told from a Honda engineer years ago. And that is basically during the first 500-600 miles you want to vary your load and speed, never staying too long at one rpm (such as by using cruise control) and never going full throttle to redline. His message to me (in a perfect world condition) was to get on the highway in the slow lane and basically go from 1500rpms to 4000/4500rpms gradually at light throttle and repeat over and over again. Now obviously doing this means your car would be repeatedly slowing down tremendously and then speeding up, and then slowing down etc., and that's probably not the safest thing in the world to do on a busy highway. City driving would mimic this, but it just takes longer to do since you have red-lights, stop signs, etc.
Anyone have thoughts on this or their personal technique to seat in the piston rings properly?
Anyone have thoughts on this or their personal technique to seat in the piston rings properly?
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