fjsjr

I'm about to pick up my allroad this week but was wondering what type of break-in
requirements are in the owners manual? The dealer is 100+ miles from my house
and about 35 miles from where I work. I was planning to just stop by the dealer
and pick up the manual with out the car but after doing some reading in this forum
and just knowing myself I don't think that is going to happen. Any tips would
be appreciated.

Thanks
jr

Allroad1

You will get a chuckle when you read the manual; I recall that it says stay less than 75% of max speedometer (125mph) :-) , dont red line it , and dont drive at constant speed for 1000miles or close to that. If you are like me.. you will be through the breakin miles in a few days...

A week before I picked mine up, they had just got a demo in and it had less than 100 miles on it.. the salesman let me take it out and encouraged me to spin it up without referencing any limits - I did ! Don't know who is buying that one, but am glad mine only had 7 miles on it. !!

ENJOY !

Mark Jacobs

"Try to shift into *all* the gears sometime before the first oil change (D, R, P, 3, 2, 1, and the manual Tip gears) -- not just D, R and P."
I did as he suggested and I really don't know if it made a difference one way or the other.

Mark

wbk

to keep the car under 4000 rpm for the first 1000 miles and avoid cruise control for that period and vary the speed. I did this and the car is very tight. I have used no oil for the last 3000 miles and added none (3800 to date). It gets faster by the mile.

Finman

I was told no break in required. I did not listen. Except for once, kept it under 4000rpm, and minimized long highway trips. The manual says to keep the car under 120mph (haha), I never exceeded 85. No oil used in the first 1200 miles.
Good luck, enjoy

Ollie

Dealer said to vary speed/avoid extended use of cruise control

fjsjr

Thanks for the iformation. My date for pick up has now been pushed back to
1/2/01. I waited this long so another few days won't kill me.

Thanks Again,
jr