How to drive first miles in Clio 200

[Rabbit1986]

Hello,

How do I drive my Clio the first few thousand miles when I receive it?

In dutch this is called the "drive-in" period. This can be: not revving above 3000 rpm the first 5000 km's, for example. I do not know the name in English.

I think the way it's driven the first miles is related to heavy oil consumption or not. during it's further life.

What are your experiences?

 

[slindborg]

The engine will have been run in/bedded in/driven in at the factory to limit warranty issues..... so imho its just the brakes you 'NEED' to bed in and just treat it like a normal car.

Also in my experience, gentle engine running in leads to heavy oil consumption and shorter lifespan etc. The old saying of treat her mean keep her keen is pretty valid for cars

 

[col182]

if in doubt, flat out

 

[Martin_172]

i drove my dci out the dealers, got it up to temperature and have driven it hard ever since!

 

[GodSpeed]

Wait for it to get upp to temp then step on it. Id make first change of oil and filter after first 1000-2000km

 

[Fletcher]

Once warm, give it hell!

 

[DrR]

You've got 3 years warranty, give it death.

 

[Alastair.]

Wait for it to get upp to temp then step on it. Id make first change of oil and filter after first 1000-2000km

why?

 

[GodSpeed]

why?

Normal procedure with a re-built engine. So thats what I'd do. No need realy

 

[Kane.]

I don't understand why they would tell you to run it in if you don't need to.

 

[Adam.]

Manual states 1000km.

 

[slindborg]

If the french are any 'good' at good engineering process, they would have broken the engines in at the plant (engine plant not car plant) and then dropped the oil to then do the production fill.

Hell the current Ford 'first service' is to check the oil level and top up if needed lol, no changing it there!

as said, you have a warranty, abuse her

 

[Goodj]

Get it warm

Then bed in the redline.

Dont use 6th gear until you've got at least 3000k under the wheels

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

Kick its hole in as soon as its warm.

The engines are tested extensivley anyway, i dont know why anyone bothers running the engines in.

 

[Adam.]

They'll get ragged like mad when going through the ports no doubt.

 

[Laine_16v]

Drive it like you stole it

 

[Rabbit1986]

Haha,

Okay you guys all agree with eachother.

But I wouldn't be too confident about that warranty.

I don't know about the UK, but some Belgian dealership's aftersales is horrible. A friend of mine had a 197, and sold it after a year, sick of troubles.

For instance: he had to fill up the oil, everytime he refueled it at the gas station
His 197 was about 2 months old and broke down. Renault went to pick it up, but they give a bloody Renault Master as a replacement.
They did about 10 checkups in that year for all kinds of troubles. But they never got the real faults fixed. They also promised a new engine, because of the oil abuse, but my friend never saw any new engine.

Just saying that I'm not that confident in the Renault aftersales. My 197 ran flawlessly though.

 

[Adam.]

Sounds like he broke it in the old man's way

 

[Gandi69]

A guy I worked with got a brand new Cooper S in 2008 and had real trouble with BMW with aftersales. The engine used to belch blue smoke on start up and it took him a very long time indeed to get them to fix the problem as the issue was "unheard" of. I think intentionally abusing the running in times etc is a bad move in my view as there is no real guarantee they'll sort any problems for you efficiently should you have them.

 

[jsd14]

Is this true about the 6th gear?
I've always used it to keep revs low especially as it states in the manual to keep under 3000rpm for first 700 or miles??

 

[Goodj]

Is this true about the 6th gear

Sorry, no, I was just joking.

Y'kno, keeping revs up / redlining it etc.

I should have said "never go past 3rd gear"

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

Haha,

Okay you guys all agree with eachother.

But I wouldn't be too confident about that warranty.

I don't know about the UK, but some Belgian dealership's aftersales is horrible. A friend of mine had a 197, and sold it after a year, sick of troubles.

For instance: he had to fill up the oil, everytime he refueled it at the gas station
His 197 was about 2 months old and broke down. Renault went to pick it up, but they give a bloody Renault Master as a replacement.
They did about 10 checkups in that year for all kinds of troubles. But they never got the real faults fixed. They also promised a new engine, because of the oil abuse, but my friend never saw any new engine.

Just saying that I'm not that confident in the Renault aftersales. My 197 ran flawlessly though.

Aftersales of Renault's is horrendous everywhere. Persistence is key.

 

[Chris_786]

Hello,

Q. How do I drive my Clio the first few thousand miles when I receive it?

A. Like you stole it.

 

[Fred@BTM]

foot to the floor, this isn't 1976

 

[Narf]

thrash it from new! all new car sales man will thrash any sort of performance car on the first run, if the car needs petrol in it before the sale its more than likely been to the petrol station at mac3.

 

[sideways danny]

I ran in my 200sx at 120.....on my own private replica of the A1. It made 294.1bhp a week later Still holds the power record for an s13 on standard injectors and AFM (by 0.5bhp)