under 50mph til broke in?

[Gabe]

I have a Prius on order from Chicago. When I told a local dealer this (he had a 6-8 month wait for what a wanted), he started rattling off the negatives of my plan to fly to Chicago and drive back- drive time, miles, lodging, and breaking it in on the freeway. I asked what he meant about breaking it in and he said you're not supposed to drive over 50mph for the first 150 miles or so. Can anyone confirm/disprove this?

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Gabe @ Jun 16 2006, 02:59 PM) [snapback]272431[/snapback]</div>

I have a Prius on order from Chicago. When I told a local dealer this (he had a 6-8 month wait for what a wanted), he started rattling off the negatives of my plan to fly to Chicago and drive back- drive time, miles, lodging, and breaking it in on the freeway. I asked what he meant about breaking it in and he said you're not supposed to drive over 50mph for the first 150 miles or so. Can anyone confirm/disprove this?
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I was told stay under 85 mph for the first 600 miles

[Rancid13]

I was only told no aggressive accellerating or hard braking in the first 500 miles. My dealer is about 25-30 miles up the freeway from where I live, so I drove it 65+mph for the first 30 miles or so. Lots of people have flown across country or across their state to pick up their Prius and driven them home at highway speeds (70+mph) with no ill effects.

[galaxee]

bah.

mainly the engine "break in period" nowadays is just the initial use of the engine. because most major manufacturing defect-related failures occur soon after the vehicle is put into service, it's kind of their way of minimizing possible damage to engine components and therefore the warranty repair cost should something go wrong.

DH spent a week or so pioneering the first rebuild of the new Tundra engine shortly after it came out. after he finished, he took all his hard work and test drove it very, very hard. now why would he go and do that if it would have thrown all his hard work out the window? the truck hasn't come back for engine trouble since.

[San_Carlos_Jeff]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Gabe @ Jun 16 2006, 04:59 PM) [snapback]272431[/snapback]</div>

I have a Prius on order from Chicago. When I told a local dealer this (he had a 6-8 month wait for what a wanted), he started rattling off the negatives of my plan to fly to Chicago and drive back- drive time, miles, lodging, and breaking it in on the freeway. I asked what he meant about breaking it in and he said you're not supposed to drive over 50mph for the first 150 miles or so. Can anyone confirm/disprove this?

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Now you have two reasons not to patronize this local dealer.
1. Long waits.
2. He's a liar.

[jamarimutt]

Just drive it like any other car.

[ched1968]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Gabe @ Jun 16 2006, 05:59 PM) [snapback]272431[/snapback]</div>

I have a Prius on order from Chicago. When I told a local dealer this (he had a 6-8 month wait for what a wanted), he started rattling off the negatives of my plan to fly to Chicago and drive back- drive time, miles, lodging, and breaking it in on the freeway. I asked what he meant about breaking it in and he said you're not supposed to drive over 50mph for the first 150 miles or so. Can anyone confirm/disprove this?
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My dealer here in Carson California told me to drive the prius not to exceed 60 MPH for 1000 miles as part of a good break in.

[rufaro]

RTFM kids. Page 318 of the '06 Owner's Manual:

Break-in period.

Drive gently and avoid high speeds.

Your vehicle does not need an elaborate break-in. But following a few simple tips for the first 1000 km (600 miles) can add to the future economy and long life of your vehicle:

• Avoid full-throttle acceleration when starting and driving.
• Avoid racing the hybrid engine.
• Try to avoid hard stops during the first 300 km (200 miles).

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Gabe @ Jun 16 2006, 02:59 PM) [snapback]272431[/snapback]</div>

I have a Prius on order from Chicago. When I told a local dealer this (he had a 6-8 month wait for what a wanted), he started rattling off the negatives of my plan to fly to Chicago and drive back- drive time, miles, lodging, and breaking it in on the freeway. I asked what he meant about breaking it in and he said you're not supposed to drive over 50mph for the first 150 miles or so. Can anyone confirm/disprove this?[/b]

Now for a question. What exactly is it that could even BEGIN to make you believe this local guy of yours, who is CLEARLY on the shortlist to win honest salesman of the year? I mean, what on earth could he stand to gain by giving you any kind of misinformation? He REALLY just has YOUR best interests at heart, doesn't he?

[bobrye]

The only thing I was told was to not use the cruise control for a few hundred miles so the engine break in would include varying speeds. Other than that no restrictions.

[Jeannie]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(San_Carlos_Jeff @ Jun 16 2006, 07:41 PM) [snapback]272478[/snapback]</div>

Now you have two reasons not to patronize this local dealer.
1. Long waits.
2. He's a liar.
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This reminds me of my first visit to a dealership a couple of months ago. Over the phone, they told me they had several Prius available, as well as the Yaris, the Scion xA and TC, the Corolla, etc. When I got there 30 minutes later, the Prius and Yaris were just sold, they didn't have TC for sale but one of the salesmen owned one so I could 'see' it, but they had a brand new 2007 Camry that I MUST try. So I test-drove the Camry, didn't like the car because the automatic transmission was very 'bumpy' when changing gears (and I really didn't WANT a Camry to begin with, even if it DID have a sun roof). Sensing that 'NO' meant "NO' after I'd repeated it several dozen times, he let me test drive a USED 2005 Prius that had been a dealer loaner/rental car. I fell in love with the Prius, but didn't want a used car at above the MSRP of the current model with the same package, and specifically would not accept a silver car - call me foolish and arbitrary, but I wasn't going to buy a car the color of the one that t-boned my old car two days earlier. So he tried to talk me into the Camry again while he was trying to 'find' the salesman who owned a TC, but couldn't even get a copy of the window sticker on the Camry (it wasn't ON the car), and dinked around for another half hour or so after I told him that I'd like to test drive the Scion xA. He took me out to the lot to get the xA, found out he didn't have the right keys, and proceeded to tell me that I shouldn't get the Scion - it takes at least a year to get one that has the side air bags.

Your reason #2 was sufficient for me!