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Simple, I teach you.

 

You park your car and open both front doors and stand about 5 metres away from one side of the door. Then on your mark, get set ..GO!...you run towards it and go thru from one door and exiting from the other.

 

There, you have run-in your new car. [laugh]

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Then just drive normally as you would. Don't worry. Not to scare you but a good run-in takes up to 25k km. Different engines different run-in distances. Just drive.

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Neutral Newbie

If your dealer don't use those huge lorries to carry your new car around, it would have been ran-in by those professional run-inners who drove your car from the docks to whereever it needs to go before you collected your car.

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Hi,

 

Do not over rev your engine. Less than 3000 or 100 kmh for Japanese car (due to the gear ratio). Generally, nowadays the cars are transported on a large trailers (cheaper for distributors too), so don't worry about what some might say.

 

Ivan

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How would we know whether we have a good or bad run-in?

I just took my ride which is less than 3k km on the odometer to ayer keroh. Using cxxxxxe triple r 5w40, travelling at constant 130km/h to 140km/h.(RPM at 3.5k to 4k)

Checked engine oil level still the same and the colour still golden brown.

I presume the engine oil is doing its job..hope it is not a bad run-in...

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I got a question here:

 

For the dudes here who follows the 1k run in rule, do u:

 

1)start engaging in high revs after 1k even before 1k servicing?

 

2) engage in high revs only after 1k servicing?

 

Is there a diff? Pardon this noobie [blush]

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Well... I only rev the car after I warmed up the engine by driving for a while... The first few Ks will "train" your ECU, so they are critical.

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I just took my ride which is less than 3k km on the odometer to ayer keroh. Using cxxxxxe triple r 5w40, travelling at constant 130km/h to 140km/h.(RPM at 3.5k to 4k) ________________________________________________________________________________

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[thumbsup] applause! [laugh]

I'm exactly the same [lipsrsealed]

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