Break-in regimen...

[Tortuga_imp]

When I picked mine up a year ago I noticed that the break-in instructions were somewhat vague. Basically, they wanted you to avoid drag race starts and the redline.

I just rode mine in a combination of city and highway miles in a spirited, but controlled fashion. I didn't test the min. 0-60 time and generally kept the revs below 6K. After about 1000 mi. of that I began riding it like I stole it. So far, so good.

Generally speaking, I think riding at either extreme (like a baby or a maniac) durning break-in is probably not the best way to go.

That seems to be a wise summary.

I know years ago when I was selling Land Rovers from a main dealer we used to register a handful of Discovery TDiS's as Service Loan cars. They would be sent into the field with delivery miles to be 'run in' by service customers, usually late for work having dropped their own vehicle off, and definitely not showing any mechanical sympathy.

I would cringe as a saw a brand new Disco being thrashed up the road, cold by one of these clowns.

Funny thing was, they'd all come back in and comment on how the service loaners with a few thousand miles on were smoother and quieter than their own cars which they ran in carefully!

Same goes for other makes I worked for, and I still see a few cars on the road today that I used to drive as my 'demo' and thrashed mercilessly.

I think there may be something in the whole 'ride it like you stole it' method?