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Originally Posted by GalaxyGreySi
OK, so, I work at a dealership. Fact is, WTF do you think happens during pre-delivery inspection? You all took delivery of your new civics with 10 miles already on them. This 10-mile test drive is a honda corporate requirement. How do you think the technicians treat this car during this test drive? Mine is an Si. How often to the mechanics get to PDI an Si? Not often. So, it's fun time. You get to drive an Si, for the first time. I am CERTAIN my Si hit redline with less than 2 miles on it. Personally, when I took delivery of my car, I hit redline with 15 miles on the vehicle. Don't worry about abusing the car. It was made for this. I was racing people with 50 miles on the clock. The car has 280 miles on it right now. I've got over 15 kills. This isn't some old chevy 350. These are built damn near PERFECT from the factory. This is a honda. Bearings clearanced to .0001 of an inch. Precision engineered. Don't worry about break-in. Drive it like it's supposed to be driven. Hell, look at real racecars. Do you think a top-fuel dragster goes through a break-in period? Doubtful. Those engines don't go through more than a few races before being rebuilt. DRIVE IT HOW YOU WANT TO DRIVE IT.
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Ugh, for working at a dealership you don't sound very educated on the subject. For one, the manual that comes with the car states that for the first 600 miles that you do not do any excessive acceleration or heavy breaking and it also states not to keep a constant RPM, like using cruise control. (I will quote it exactly and supply the page number if you dont believe me)
Another thing that boggles my mind is that you say that most cars are delivered with ten miles on them or so, and that those miles are from honda-techs putting the car through its paces. The Si that I just purchased only had four miles on it and that was from only one other person who drove it, I was the second person to ever drive it and I put it up to 10 miles. So in essense, this car was delivered with either zero miles or very damn near close to zero. How do you explain that?