Use it an excuse to take a road trip.
Just make sure youve hit the break in period before your way back home. Get an oil change, then smash it with all the built up excitement all the way home!

No, but really, in my opinion I would follow the protocol due to it being new. and I wouldnt want to put all that money down if something funky goes wrong and warranty doesnt cover.

Im that guy that gets a used car/bike w/ little prev owners that has babied it (from the looks, carfax etx) and smash it down the road as i drive away with a smile.


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I personally believe in hard brake in's for my motorcycles
Just drive it hard(or how you normally would) without keeping it at the same rpm's for extended amounts of time (NO HIGHWAY)

Soft brake in's are also good. just not for me

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For example i'm pretty sure lamborghini or ferrari? Does a hard brake in for every car on a track.
They can't tell you to do that in a manual booklet or people would get injured and or die.

I drove my winter beater like a rented mule from day one off the dealership's lot. Burnouts from every stop. It's been 7 years and 118,000 mi, and the thing doesn't lose a drop of oil, and has required zero expenditures outside of regular maintenance.

Well, this seems like a good chance to pad my post count :postwhore:

The only thing you really need to do is avoid cruising at the same RPMs for continuous periods of time. This means no cruise control and constantly varying your speed and/or RPMs during highway cruising.

Ideally no WOT or redlining before ~500 miles or so. But it probably won't be catastrophic if you do. I routinely ran the RPMs up to 5500 RPMs in every gear I could during the break-in period. I ran them up gradually like on a dyno though - not full throttle like a drag strip. She still runs like a top 92K miles later :driving:

Did some web searching and came up with zero hard data. Lots of opinions; no data.

Most people seem to agree that it's all about sealing the rings. Few agree on how to properly accomplish that.

Based on the stories I read, it doesn't make a whole lot of difference with a decent, modern engine. Found several stories of people that took their cars from the showroom to the drag strip with no apparent problems. I wouldn't recommend doing that but it doesn't seem to be a big no-no nowadays.

YMMV

At least with oil, one can find UOAs and such to back up claims. ;)

Broke in my 350Z's VQ per the owner's manual.

I then raced the crap out of it for 100k miles with no issues. (no issues with the motor)

I was really big on maintenance, but that motor spent most of its life in the top half of the tach after break-in.