Finally done with break in..
 

It took 2.5 months with lots of patience and willpower. I don't recall hitting above 4k, and definitely not intentionally. Let the fun begin.

http://i.imgur.com/xuXifzt.jpg

I'm about 40 miles away myself.

2.5 months? Pretty long for just 1K :P

I live about 2 miles from my office and don't drive it in the rain(yeah I'm ridiculous, but it's my 1/3 life crisis car and all)... And it has rained a lot since I brought her home.

The best time to drive this car is in the rain!

You should try it at least once. Nannies off and leave her in second.:burnrubber:

:happy0180:

Would love to, but [un]fortunately I live in a residential area without open parking lots that cops don't sit in. I really should look in to tracks or something in the area to take some actual driving classes. Hmmmmm, I smell a Christmas 2013 or father's day 2014 gift idea!

Lol, at least it was only 2.5 months... I barely hit 300+ miles in mine and I've had it since Oct.

Haha, I got mine on friday and put 500km on it in less then 24hrs. Went for a nice long drive the next day along a winding road with virtually no traffic was a lot of fun.

HAHA love the choice of wording XD! :thumbsup: Nannies lmao!

What is this so called break in?

One month and six days.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...1000_miles.jpg

Under the owners manual, the recommended break in period which is the period by which you allow the internals of the car to settle in, is for the first 1000 miles to....
1. Don't rev over 4k
2. Avoid hard braking, quick acceleration from a stop
3. Vary RPM/speed often
4. Don't use cruise control

I don't think the dealers know of this. On my test drive the guy kept telling me to really wring out the rpms and that it was OK since the engine was warm....

Needless to say I didn't buy that particular car (due to my color choice)...
Added benefit was not getting a car that's been put through hell for nearly 200 miles.:thumbsup:

This is why I would never buy a car off the lot. Ive heard tons of guys on here talk about their crazy test drives where saleman encouraged them to gun it or try to get it sideways... To think those cars ended up in someone elses hands down the road, seems unfair.

well i broke the first two rules in about 2 hours of ownership :P

LOL.. you guys are funny. I know what you mean. I didn't do my break in "perfectly" either. I did rev up to about 6500 one time. And I've done a little too much freeway driving which had me at around 3200 rpm fairly consistently.

Just keep in mind that it's "recommended" and not like you HAVE to do it. I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination. But I do firmly believe that it will help with the longevity of the car.

I'm no expert by any means, but I bought a 2003 WRX new and broke it in following these recommendations very loosely. No issues with it, current owner is still driving it like crazy and it's gotta be nearing 200k by now.

Think I broke all these rules within 24hrs after purchased.:lol:

this, at about 800 miles in the last 5 days.

which consisted of donuts, sliding, back road enjoyment and a significant amount of steady highway driving.

of course none combined

to be fair, the owners manual on my hemi ram bought this year actually said to go wot while breaking in.

ask 10 different people about breaking in something, you'll get 10 different answers.

broke in the new shortblock in my turbo forester hard, near 20k miles later doesn't burn any oil.