BEST RUNNING IN TACTICS FROM NEW PLEASE?

[demonseed]

OK O WISE TUSCAN JEDI'S
Whats the best advise on running in, ile be running mine in via a 700 mile round trip to cornwall, via A roads so whats best??? alternate speeds up and down??
Please advise me

[Nick Elliott]

I belive it goes somthing like this in the handbook:-

First 250 miles vary the engine speed although not more than 3K RPM and avoid constant speeds, after that occasional excersions up to 4K RPM are OK as it helps bed the piston rings in.After 1000 mile service you can then gradually increase the engine revs.

One very important item is alway warm up the engine carefully < 3K RPM until both water and oil are at normal operating temperature ie water 80 Deg.C and oil 60 Deg.C

Nick

[demonseed]

cheers Nick, thats a great help, oh! although i havnt got the car yet im told it doesnt have a rev counter, well not that i can remember on the test drive.
So how do i guage the revs?????????

[ehasler]

Advice I was given today when I picked mine up is to keep revs below 2500 until the engine is warm, and then for the first 600-700 miles keep below 3500. After this, you can have very quick bursts up to 4000, but the main thing is to avoid labouring the engine.

Also, don't keep it at a constant speed, so if you're cruising, make sure you vary the speed.

There is a rev counter - it's actually shown on a couple of the dash display screens, and you can select a screen which just displays revs.

[demonseed]

Thanks my friend, by labouring do you mean low speeds in say 5th gear where engine is chugging???

[ehasler]

Yep - that's it!

Or if you find it trying to dig up a road or something!

[Snakes]

I am due to get my T350C and so started this thread that might help.

Running in procedure

and here

>> Edited by Snakes on Sunday 4th May 07:37