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Old 03-31-2004 | 10:51 AM
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How long did it take you to get the 1200 mile break in? In terms or weeks/months?
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For me it was somewhere around 3 weeks as a daily driver.
Old 03-31-2004 | 11:08 AM
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Almost a year to the day after it was delivered....
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got mine Feb 5th of this year...just hit 1200 last week.
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two weeks =/
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I only drive 8 miles a day on average.
I guess the advantage of working from home.

guess i will have to take trips everyday so it doesn't take me 6 months to break in.
Mabye a month then if i do random trips.
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About a week and a half. I couldn't wait to break my baby in.
Old 03-31-2004 | 12:29 PM
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Less than a week... haha
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Originally posted by Z-INCOGNITO
Less than a week... haha
Old 03-31-2004 | 12:43 PM
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about 2 months. 2 long months
Old 03-31-2004 | 01:09 PM
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5 days
Old 03-31-2004 | 02:46 PM
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3 weeks.
Old 03-31-2004 | 02:47 PM
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so far i have done 1150km in 1 week.. drove like 150km every day!! geez its devalueing as we speak but who cares i love the car thats what matters.
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2 months. 50 miles to go!
Old 03-31-2004 | 02:56 PM
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I bought it in September 03 and I only have 592 miles on it. It had about 225 when I bought it. She's been sitting in my garage all winter.

Damn, Cleveland winters are long!!!
Old 03-31-2004 | 03:11 PM
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Originally posted by pointfivezero
Almost a year to the day after it was delivered....
A year? What do you do? Work at the grocery store at the next corner down?
Old 03-31-2004 | 04:18 PM
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One week because I bought it in California and drove it 600 miles back to Vegas.
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4 days.

I got it with 7 miles on it and I was going to my first track event 6 days later. In the meantime I wanted to get my StopTechs on it and get at least 1500 miles on the odometer. I did a lot of pointless roadtrips to get there but there was no way I was missing my first track event.

I got the car to drive it, not to look at it.
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5 and 1/2 hours
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Originally posted by drew703
5 and 1/2 hours
WTF! How many miles did it have on it when you bought it?


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