MSP rumor: Don't rev past 3krpm in first 500miles?
This has been floating around. It's one of those friend of a friend things.
Something like this: "Stay away from the Mazdaspeed Protege. My friend works at the dealer and says he's had 3 come back with blown engines already. There's a bulletin saying don't rev past 3000 rpm in the break in period or 500 miles." Sounds like BS to me, but some few are believing it. It is BS, right? |
That's just a break-in period. I doubt the engine actually blew up if it wasn't broken-in properly.. but it can cause small metal shavings to score the cylinder walls. I usually break in my cars for 1500 miles before I do anything with them... and after 3000 miles i'd already have done 2 oil changes. Then it's an oil change every 2500-3000 miles. This is regardless of what car I have.
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damn if you dont rev past 3000 rpm you would be going like hella slow :o
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During the break in period, don't rev your engine excessively is i beleive what the manual for my P5 says (but tru for any new car.)
An on a 4 cylinder i'd say that's over 4-5k rpm heck 70mph on mine is over 3000 rpm. Hope this helps... :) |
that's true on any car. you shouldn't rev high during break-in unless you want to break your engine :rolleyes:
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I just logged 650 miles on my ms2 amd no problems with shifting past 3000 rpm
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Originally posted by mkyboy I just logged 650 miles on my ms2 amd no problems with shifting past 3000 rpm |
MS2 is the U.S. 2003 and 2003.5 Mazdaspeed Protege
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MSP not MS2
Originally posted by mkyboy MS2 is the U.S. 2003 and 2003.5 Mazdaspeed Protege |
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