So:

Less than X revs for Y miles

or

Get the oil warm, valves dancing under the bonnet

or

Bit between the two, but make sure all rogue bits of metal are captured for the first supernumenary oil change

FIGHT!

Get the oil warm, valves dancing under the bonnet

Or, if I know Portland, 'drive it like you stole it'

Not that he ever stole a car.

But he can drive like a tool.

Ask him about the fish and the off road experience. Really.

The fish were entirely unharmed. The bill to sort the tracking once the car was out of the field was negligible - I did find the field rather than the huge gulley in my defence.

But my window was open and the car filled with grass and mud.

I am not content.

In fairness, the grass and mud factor was considerable.

Really though, in the 15+ books in the user pack, nothing mentions running in.

What's the best approach peeps?

My personal feeling is to bring the oil up to temp, note this is different from brining the water up to temp as indicated by the water temp guage. Oil takes much longer, at least 10 minutes under normal driving to get up to 60 deg C.
Then drive it using the full rev range.

HOWEVER

If the manufacturer gives specific instructions in the manual then these should be adhered to to avoid any warranty issues.

I can't find any specific instructions in the manual, and the salesman didn't mention anything

This is because new cars these days do not need running in!

Well....at least that's what I heard,...

Baerius said:

This is because new cars these days do not need running in!

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Oh baby.

Well, it's what I'm hearing more and more, from laymen and pros, people don't wanna have to run in a car and the industry is listening. They do the critical run ins at build. Basically the best thing to do is idle it until it's up to temp before driving it, and that mainly is to be more economical since cars are at their least economical at cold...

Once again.

Oh baby.

Warm oil, veeeeeeeeeeeeeery important to avoid bad things.

I had the excuse last time round that I had to run the engine in on both sets of valve timing


Once oil is warm, the recommendation I have for most cars (I am not a certified mechanic, laywer, doctor etc) is to run the rev range (albeit not too much in the ears bleeding range) and run through the gears too. Doing 58mph on the motorway in 5th/6th does nothing for you.

Come on Fiat mechanics, tell us the way forward...

oh baby...you singing?:yum:

Baerius said:

best thing to do is idle it until it's up to temp before driving it

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which would take ages.......i'd be late for work! (again )

Baerius - give me 10 mins alone with that leather interiror and I'll be rhapsodising!

should never leave a car at idle to warm up as it wll take allot longer to warm meaning the car will run allot more with to much fuel meaning thinning of the oil and bore washing

always drive off straight away keeping revs under 3500 ish until warm then drive normally

obviously if it's really cold your gona want to be a little more mechanically sympathetic

as for running in it simply is not necessary there's nothing you can do to break a new engine so just drive like you would any other car

if it's long term longevity your worried about

some of the worst things you can do to a new engine are leaving the car to warm up at idle and travelling at constant speeds on motorway straight away and keeping revs ridiculously low also short journey that don't allow the car to warm up fully

best thing use he entire rev range and all gears in mixed driving for first few weeks

mmm didn't know that,that's sounds like good advice....

I was gonna do loads of steady motorway miles as soon as I got it....so you recommend throwing it around town for a hundred miles or so?

I have heard a story of a kitcar owner who thought he would run his engine in......he put his car on axle stands, started it up, put it in gear and let it run at low revs while he went and has his tea.

That engine didn't last long.

Fully agree with LittlePip's comments.