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New Car motorway miles will it cause damage?
This is a discussion on New Car motorway miles will it cause damage? within the Maintenance & Performance forums, part of the General Motoring Discussions category; undefined undefined I have just ordered a Fab VRS. I do 100 miles a day on the motorway will this ...
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19-06-2004, 23:20
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|  New Car motorway miles will it cause damage? undefinedundefined I have just ordered a Fab VRS. I do 100 miles a day on the motorway will this cause damage to the engine whilst I'm running it in? |
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19-06-2004, 23:21
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| Nope, Follow the guidelines in the manual about not using max revs for the first 1000 miles or so, and you'll be fine. Cruising along a motorway should be perfect for running it in. Enjoy  |
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19-06-2004, 23:24
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| I Agree.!!! Wont do it any harm.. Cheers  Tim
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19-06-2004, 23:25
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| Nope it will love it I do about 70 miles a day and she loves it, and so do I, still enjoy driving it.
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20-06-2004, 00:02
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| When running your car in on motorway miles, just be careful to alter the engine speeds with fairly frequent gear changes. Steve
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20-06-2004, 08:24
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| At least doing 100 miles a day yours will be runin in a couple of weeks , when I get mine it will probably take me 2 months  .
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20-06-2004, 10:50
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| Only thing is it will take longer (in terms of miles) for the engine to be properly run-in, and in particular other components such as brakes. If you drive anything like me you won't even have any dust on the wheels after 1000 miles! |
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20-06-2004, 11:10
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| Agree with Steve_vRS, an engine should be subjected to load (acceleration) and varying engine speeds rather than constant revs during run-in. Also if you sit on the mway in 5th you're not using your gearbox either... Why not do 50 miles mway, 50miles A road? |
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