Break-in

[HB822]

Good lord. Just drive your car. I can't find any empirical evidence from longitudinal studies looking at a one type of breaking in vs others. It is all anecdotal which is the worse type of evidence. i would assume that a certain number of engines of each type from each manufacturer are run for hours and hours and varying revs to test, but outside of that, it is just chance and luck of the draw of how your engine was mass produced.

 

[F90Guy]

Good lord. Just drive your car. I can't find any empirical evidence from longitudinal studies looking at a one type of breaking in vs others. It is all anecdotal which is the worse type of evidence. i would assume that a certain number of engines of each type from each manufacturer are run for hours and hours and varying revs to test, but outside of that, it is just chance and luck of the draw of how your engine was mass produced.

At the end of the day it is your car and no one can tell how to do it. Point is to change the oil before 10k. If you don't watch Car Care Nut a 20year Toyota/Lexus master mechanic. He makes a great point- the engine won't fall apart if you want till 10k, it's just not ideal to have all those metal deposit from a new engine floating around for 10k miles vs 1 or 5.

 

[RickBullotta]

I watched a Toyota mechanic's video and he advised: avoid high RPM and speeds in excess of 60-65, drive at varying speeds, and no hard use of brakes at least for 500 miles. Change oil at 1,000. He called it cheap insurance if you're planning on keeping it more than 5 years.

You've got a nice little drive home. I'd mostly stay off the interstate, if possible and that should take care of things.

I'm lucky my dealer is 3 miles away. I'm planning a short hop to the national forest and ride the river roads, all dirt. It'll be easy to try out the OT there.

Literally zero chance of avoiding speeds in exceess of 60-65. Who wants to be "that guy" clogging the highway? That's an absurd requirement.