vrusso

it's killing me... per the owner's manual i must keep my cayman s under 4k rpm's for the first 2k miles. how did you guys manage to stay strong and not dip into the sweet upper rpm range for so long?

McGarrett

It is torture, but must be done. I just drove the thing all the time so the 2k would just get over.

Jim Michaels

Apparently most of us didn't follow the break-in tip about 2k miles under 4k rpm. The other tips are worth following. Search "break in" at www.caymanclub.net and read the variations on the theme.

Edgy01

You really don't have to follow that. The engines are all 'broken in' on the dyno at Zuffenhausen. What needs breaking in is the driver and the other parts that have to work together on the car.

Do you really think everyone waits 2000 miles to punch it? What about test cars (demos). Do you think test drives are all done slow?

BGLeduc

Bruce Anderson commented about this question in Excellence several months back. His advice, IIRC, was to take it easy for the first 500 miles or so, and then drive it like you stole it.

I offer no comments about this, other than Bruce knows a hell of a lot more about Porsche engines than I do.

Brian

vladie22

i went easy on mine until about 1500 miles then i couldnt take it anymore . mine is not a daily driver ( i only drive it 1-2 days a week ) so it felt like it was taking forever !

ChipAZ

Not over 5000 rpm for the first 1000 miles and then have at. Which was the salesman's advice. Although I'm keeping it below 6000 until I hit 2k. But if it gets dangerous passing a line of cars I let her rip.

Jim 'n' SC

What has changed? When I bought both my Boxster's the break in was 1,000 miles.

MarkinMD

I read a comment somewhere, sorry I don't remember where or by whom, that Porsche raised it to 2,000 miles to allow the driver to get "broken in." That too many new owners were pushing their cars before they learned how to handle them, leading to a high accident rate and owner dissatisfaction. My 2001 Boxster had a 1,000 mile break-in period. After driving carefully for the first 1K miles, I gradually worked up to readline by about 1.5K miles. The car didn't consume any oil between changes for the 30K+ miles I drove it.

vrusso

i'm at 1750 miles and the engine does feel appreciably more free than it did when new. i've been rolling into higher rpms but i'm hoping to have this all behind me within the next week as i'll be hitting the 2k mark very soon. i know that i might be overly cautious but i do feel obliged to follow porsche's recs.

MarkinMD

Ya, with the computer recording so much data, who knows what they could lookup later if there was a problem. Better safe than sorry!

Boro

Make sure the engine and oil temps are up to operating levels before you go over much past 4000 rpm even when fully broken in. We took my wife's Cayman S to the track with about 1700 miles on it. It spent 3 days between 4000 and 7000rpm (25 minutes at a time). The engine loosened up noticably and there was no oil usage. Appropriate warm up and cool down is important.
Hope that helps,
Tom