My sales took me to fuel the car with 93 octane

 

I agree with every word of I1der above. Good advice

 

lol, lesson is never listen to salesmen, cause they don't know what they are talking about

 

lol @ this. you're 13 i assume?

 

Hell, the service guys told me that they didn't even know that you couldn't take it past 4K during break in. THey sent me a letter stating that i have my first service soon. I came in there and they asked how many miles, i told them 666 and they said well its for the 3700 mile service so obviously i can wait. Then i told them about the break in period and they were dumb-founded. Shows how much they know.

 

I have only a 100 miles till i get to the 1200 mile mark on my 07 and i have tried to be carefull of the 4k limit and have surely broken the nothing above 50mph rule . But hell it's a car and it can be fixed. Drive it like a sports car (CAUSE IT IS).

As for your second question ZAINO FTW

Cheers

Kevin

 

ehh I really do think you will be ok. I personally wouldnt follow those recommendation to the letter, but i might be conscious of them.

 

I drove the car like a redheaded stepdaughter. Break in period rules are a thing of the past. Best to break in your new car on the dyno the first 20 miles

 

This is why I will never buy a used car! nobody can read these days.

 

On the other hand you can never be sure that a brand new car wasn't redlined by some overzealous test driver just days before you bought it......

 

I ordered my Z and will always order if I can. Got it withthe platic still on it. SO unless the mechanic at the dealer tripped I should be cool.

 

just chill out and enjoy your ride!!

 

Just take it easy till the break in is complete, then have fun!

 

Yeah, I remember the 50 MPH for 500 miles bit; and then nothing was said about a maximum engine RPM. As a matter of fact, my new 350Z is the first car I have owned with the 4K RPM break in limit. The 50 MPH limit was a PITA to observe on the highway.

I much prefer the 4K RPM, which allows me to go 65 to 75 MPH and yet not get even close to 4K RPM.

Nando

PS.
And BTW, I am REALLY getting to like the 350Z; the more I drive it, the more I like it.

 

Wait till you start modding . . . you'll realize it is a money pit.

 

Don't forget that before the car is put on the boat to leave Japan it actually goes on the track.

There are two trains of thought here in the UK with regards to break-in.

1. Follow the rules and see how it goes.

2. Drive it normally from the get go.

Now I know a few people who have done both and it seems to me that the guys who followed #1 are the guys who have had a few more issues with their cars. I myself did #1 for the first Z and suffered with the excessive oil consumption thing, I went thru more than 4l of oil in about 5000 miles.
I know guys who have done #2 and dyno'd their cars and they have more power than guys who did #1.

At the end of the day tho, it's up to you but what I can tell you is that when I get Z #2 in September I won't be following #1.

 

Break-in's are bogus. I think the only time I broke in a car was an M3, because BMW had some engine issues, and knowing that they can tell what you've done with your car, I figured I better be good with the break-in in case I had to deal with one of those engine issues.

Otherwise, think logically about it. From a physics standpoint, is your engine going to get stronger? Do the seals magically improve over 8-10 hours of driving, then last forever? Do metals crystallize differently?

No. This was true back in the old days with engines that were manufacture essentially by "hand." Today, tolerances are so tight, that nothing is going to happen.

IMHO, it's lawyers at the automobile corporations who insist on these things just in case. And it gives the manufacturer an out if something goes wrong with the engine. They can say, "see, we pulled the data out of your computer, and it appears that you revved the engine, we don't recommend that in the first 1200 miles, and even though your engine blew up, it was really your fault."

 

Engine typically dyno more HP after a few thousands of miles. So something does happen...

The breaking is not so much for the engine. The transmission and differential are better off being loaded gradually. Any imperfection of the gear can then be smoothed out instead of smashing together and failling later down the road.

 

ZAINO IT!!

I agree ZAINO is the way to go!!
www.zainobros.com

 

Gas mileage also increases throughout about the first 1000 miles. My car started at 13.x mpg and is now in the high 16s 600 miles later. So yeah, I agree, something is happening during that time. Also, besides the engine, isn't it true that new brakes need to be babied for the first few hundred miles?