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This car was driven > 1.2k mi before taken on the 'Ring. I know the owner.
Regarding break-in, everyone has a different flavor they follow, but when I did Euro delivery of my 4RS in Oct '22 I did roughly the following:
1) first 200 mi kept revs below 4000 rpm
2) incremented by +500 rpm every 100 mi
3) yes, the little blue alert reminding me to observe the break-in procedure disappeared at 1200 mi (and, yes, my car is a US spec model)
4) did oil change at ~2000 mi
Stangely my ROW GT4RS’s little blue alert went away at exactly 1500km/914mi.
My apologies, I forgot some yanks live in a bubble. I'll let you in on a little secret, the ROW doesn't reside in NA... oh, and there's a MY23 GT4, incase you didn't already know. Might want to add them to your numbers.
Interesting news posted on a German site. Exhaust on all 4.0 variants, GTS - GT4 - GT4RS - Spyder, can apparently be programmed for manual operation, defeating the automatic OEM setup, without throwing errors by using PIWIS. Wonder if our software guru @718socal or others can figure out what needs to be done?
Interesting news posted on a German site. Exhaust on all 4.0 variants, GTS - GT4 - GT4RS - Spyder, can apparently be programmed for manual operation, defeating the automatic OEM setup, without throwing errors by using PIWIS. Wonder if our software guru @718socal or others can figure out what needs to be done?
Stangely my ROW GT4RS’s little blue alert went away at exactly 1500km/914mi.
Exactly.
Porsche manual is quite misleading, but if I get it correctly, break-in for 4RS is 1500 km during which you can't go over 7,000 rpm.
The part that state 3000km and not over 4000rpm is related to GT4/Spyder engine as the User Guide is the same for all of them.
You can't go over 7K rpm during break-in ....quite a lol
Last edited by GT Omologata; 05-10-2023 at 01:40 PM.
Exactly.
Porsche manual is quite misleading, but if I get it correctly, break-in for 4RS is 1500 km during which you can't go over 7,000 rpm.
The part that state 3000km and not over 4000rpm is related to GT4/Spyder engine as the User Guide is the same for all of them.
You can't go over 7K rpm during break-in ....quite a lol
Any chance this is spelled out in the owner's manual, can you screen shot and post?
Exactly.
Porsche manual is quite misleading, but if I get it correctly, break-in for 4RS is 1500 km during which you can't go over 7,000 rpm.
The part that state 3000km and not over 4000rpm is related to GT4/Spyder engine as the User Guide is the same for all of them.
You can't go over 7K rpm during break-in ....quite a lol
So from the image above, I still read that keeping the RPM of the engine below 4000 is recommended by Porsche during break in (possibly no matter the distance).
Exactly.
Porsche manual is quite misleading, but if I get it correctly, break-in for 4RS is 1500 km during which you can't go over 7,000 rpm.
The part that state 3000km and not over 4000rpm is related to GT4/Spyder engine as the User Guide is the same for all of them.
You can't go over 7K rpm during break-in ....quite a lol
Item 3 in my post #8173 above had a typo. I meant to write that the blue light, which indicates the break-in period, extinguished after 1500 km (not 1.2k mi).
I previously posted about this in another thread: https://rennlist.com/forums/718-gts-...l#post18505134
So, yes, the break-in blue light came off at 932 mi (1500 km) on my US spec GT4 RS. Enjoy!
Exactly.
Porsche manual is quite misleading, but if I get it correctly, break-in for 4RS is 1500 km during which you can't go over 7,000 rpm.
The part that state 3000km and not over 4000rpm is related to GT4/Spyder engine as the User Guide is the same for all of them.
You can't go over 7K rpm during break-in ....quite a lol
Of course you can go over 7k rpm during break-in, IF you’re an idiot and don’t care for your car.
05-07-2023, 05:20 AM
