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WOT gets a lot of headlines it doesn't deserveI am approaching 1000 miles with my hybrid but haven't gone full throttle yet. Considering the fact that the gas engine theoretically has only about 600 miles on it, would you wait another 500 miles before to end the break in period? Thoughts?
It's funny, both this article and the owners manual mention not driving at a constant rate of speed for extended periods of time. I was very aware of this recommendation as I was putting the first several hundred miles on my EB Maverick, but I quickly realized that despite the speed one is driving (within reason) the RPMs stay in a relatively narrow band when the transmission has eight gears and no real means of manually selecting any of them. I did consciously try to vary the RPMs somewhat as I was driving, but the operation of the transmission made it all but impossible. I'm not sure of the relative value of varying one's speed during break-in if the engine RPMs rarely depart from a narrow, very low band the entire time.Here's a short article from Consumer Reports on the topic: Do New Cars Still Require a Break-In Period? - Consumer Reports
The Maverick manual has some recommendations, which I'm following. I figure that taking it easy for ~1000 miles isn't that hard.
Most piston aircraft engines are basically 75+ year old designs.To break in a new airplane engine they want you to run it at 75% to 80% of full power with the mixture way rich to keep her cool and wash down the oil on the cylinders. Minimal idling and messing around on the ground. All this to get the rings to seat and keep from glazing the cylinders. That should work for a Maverick too.