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Old 08-26-2024, 01:40 PM
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Looking for a little support and maybe some clever ideas on how you managed the break-in period. Not here to debate whether or not it's necessary (I'm in the camp it's the right thing to do), but rather, how did you keep the RPMs down for so long? At this rate, it's going to take me a year to get her over 1800mi. The car is begging me to go over 4000rpm every single time I drive her.

I work from home and just generally do not drive a ton. Sitting at 219mi on the odometer today. Also, being from Chicago, the Winter will afford me far fewer opportunities to drive her.

Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated! If nothing else, this thread can hopefully help myself and others cope with the champagne problems of owning a Porsche.

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I have several vehicles, and have been thinning down the collection, mainly because none of them get enough miles when spread over (4) cars and (2) motorcycles. I look at the Virginia Personal Property Tax (harsh) and the cost to insure and do maintenance on all of them and it's about $ 2K a month to keep them all in service without any of them being driven at all. However, I don't play golf or have any other hobby expense, so my wife gives me a pass. But I do realize more often than not I take a truck to work because I need a pickup in my business several days a week. My 992 just turned 10,000 miles and is 3 years, 8 months old. My pickup truck gets 10K a year, my Cayenne (trip car) about 8K a year.

But sometimes you just want to see it in the garage, I sure do. So don't sweat it - long as you can justify the cost of keeping one not being driven much.

This I will tell you for sure, however. Spend as much time as you possibly can with your 3 year old daughter! You hear that a lot, but its so true. My one regret in life was being out on the track on weekends when I should have been taking the kids to the Zoo, that sort of thing. You have, at most, ten years of fun with her. At 13, she won't want anything to do with you (or. your wife) and maybe, coming out of college at age 23, you might be OK again. So you have ten years from age 13 to 23 to drive the Porsche . For now, go to the Zoo!
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AT 500 miles bring her up to 5K from time to time-at 750 miles maybe hit 6K and occasionally hit 5K. At 1000 miles let her rip.
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AT 500 miles bring her up to 5K from time to time-at 750 miles maybe hit 6K and occasionally hit 5K. At 1000 miles let her rip.
This is similar to what my philosophy has been. Porsche is asking to avoid greater than 4k RPMs, but the occasional shift past that to 5k or so isn't going to hurt anything. Everything in moderation, I say! I'll still be treating it nicely even at 1000 miles, but by then I'm sure the occasional 6k RPM shift will be unavoidable ​​​​
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Take a couple of days off and do a road trip over country roads.
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If you're not really driving the car (1,800 mi a year) then mostly you are enjoying seeing it in your garage and rpms are not an issue when static. What is really more concern for you is keeping the battery charged and the car operated enough so the seals don't dry out.

You say. you don't want to discuss the need for break-in, so you really have answered your own question. Drive it or let someone else drive it for you is about all you can do.

I see Porsche, BMW, Audi and even Ferrari bring out factory new cars for track day experiences that have no miles on them at all, to be flogged around the track at max g's and rpms relentlessly until taken out of service them sold to the general public. Those vehicles are not "Broken in" at all.

Me? I don't bother with break in - never lost an engine in about 60 new cars over my lifetime from failure to follow rpms when new. When I get a new car, I look left, look right, then nail it.
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There's a break in period?
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Go exploring. Either by word of mouth or google maps go find the fun drives in your area. You don't want to go ***** out on roads you have never driven before anyway, so it's a nice way to learn the car and your routes safely while putting on some miles.
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Originally Posted by Mike818
Go exploring. Either by word of mouth or google maps go find the fun drives in your area. You don't want to go ***** out on roads you have never driven before anyway, so it's a nice way to learn the car and your routes safely while putting on some miles.
Great suggestion, thanks!
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Well I had it done within a month or so of driving loops on the mountains... Not to bad. Idling around under 4k rpms isn't doing the motor any favors. I made sure to use it up and down the rev range as much as possible under load through the twisty bits, even up to 4500 sometimes.

Like other said, slowly creeping up to 5k, then 6k, and so on so that by the time I got to 1600 miles I got an oil change and she was ready to rip.
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Originally Posted by division
There's a break in period?
Exactly, how many guys are going to baby one of these cars for over a 1,000 miles. I have never known anyone who did.
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Originally Posted by solidgranite
Looking for a little support and maybe some clever ideas on how you managed the break-in period. Not here to debate whether or not it's necessary (I'm in the camp it's the right thing to do), but rather, how did you keep the RPMs down for so long? At this rate, it's going to take me a year to get her over 1800mi. The car is begging me to go over 4000rpm every single time I drive her.

I work from home and just generally do not drive a ton. Sitting at 219mi on the odometer today. Also, being from Chicago, the Winter will afford me far fewer opportunities to drive her.

Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated! If nothing else, this thread can hopefully help myself and others cope with the champagne problems of owning a Porsche.
We don’t cope. We drive!
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I suggest getting up early or staying up late and logging some pre/post-rush hour miles. I also recommend trying the ROADS app or asking friends for ideas or just driving some of your favorite roads, taking the long way home from errands, forget something on your spouse’s grocery list, hit some cloverleaf interchanges, etc. I have done that and after 13 days I’m at 1,000 miles (I normally barely hit 8,000 miles a year). To be full disclosure, I’m doing more of the Preuninger break in method so I didn’t suffer quite as much as you but my philosophy was get through break in like it’s my job so I can get to the fun times.
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Originally Posted by CJDCREW
I suggest getting up early or staying up late and logging some pre/post-rush hour miles. I also recommend trying the ROADS app or asking friends for ideas or just driving some of your favorite roads, taking the long way home from errands, forget something on your spouse’s grocery list, hit some cloverleaf interchanges, etc. I have done that and after 13 days I’m at 1,000 miles (I normally barely hit 8,000 miles a year). To be full disclosure, I’m doing more of the Preuninger break in method so I didn’t suffer quite as much as you but my philosophy was get through break in like it’s my job so I can get to the fun times.
Great advice, thanks! Didn't know about the "roads" app.
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Great advice, thanks! Didn't know about the "roads" app.
Btw - the subtext on my rec was that I couldn’t make it many days without giving it the beans, so I had to match the time it would take with my willpower level and ability to rationalize poor choices! I have no advice to help with the willpower side!
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Originally Posted by solidgranite
Looking for a little support and maybe some clever ideas on how you managed the break-in period. Not here to debate whether or not it's necessary (I'm in the camp it's the right thing to do), but rather, how did you keep the RPMs down for so long? At this rate, it's going to take me a year to get her over 1800mi. The car is begging me to go over 4000rpm every single time I drive her.

I work from home and just generally do not drive a ton. Sitting at 219mi on the odometer today. Also, being from Chicago, the Winter will afford me far fewer opportunities to drive her.

Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated! If nothing else, this thread can hopefully help myself and others cope with the champagne problems of owning a Porsche.
Long road-trips in sport mode with constant downshifts to get RPMs up. You could also get her on jackstands and pull a Ferris Bueller(not in reverse).


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