Hi - I wanted to know if any of you experienced tsx owners had any tips for the "break-in" period of the car. I understand that it is for the first 1000km (600 miles) - any tips?

Few I came across:
- Dont rev about 3000rpm
- Dont go faster than about 30MPH - 50MPH (under a 100KM/h)

 

For the first 600 miles, dont go over 3000 rpm and don't brake hard. From about 600-1000 miles, gradually increase the rpms but still don't redline it. Also, you do not want to stay at the same speed for any longer than 3-4 minutes. Try to change your speeds and rpms.

 

Thx - How about after the first 600miles?

 

I generally advise my clients that they should avoid full throttle acceleration, avoid heavy braking, and avoid steady state cruising. Also please do not change the oil till the car 'tells' you to. There is a break-in additive in the factory fill. It should stay in the car for the recommended time. Lastly, no synthetic oil till 10K miles

 

After 600 miles, just gradually keep increasing your rpms once in awhile. I wouldn't redline it until at least 2500 miles in my opinion. Colin brought up a good point, do not change your oil until stated.

 

The break in rules are all old school now a days. Coming from a tech for over 25 years. Todays cars you can drive right out of the box just like you would normally drive. Same as the don't use syn. oil until XXX miles. Many cars come from the factory with syn. oil. Any car at any mileage can benifit from syn oil.

 

^^Do whatever you want man!

 

You can look on pg. 356 of your owner's manual for break in info. A tend to agree with levistar to a point. however, I would not say that it is all old school. The break-in period is to allow engine internals (specifically, the piston rings) to break in and seal properly, which theoretically will prevent oil from being burned when the engine starts to rack up miles. This has been debated many times and i am not going to get into it here. I must say I have done many GSR engine rebuilds in the past to understand this. The Best recommendation i can give is follow your owner manual.

 

^^Since nobody on an internet forum is going to honor your warranty, I'd suggest following the manual.

 

^^ LOL. What he said...

 

Better safe than sorry. Follow the manual for break-in! We had to get rid of our Maxima because it was burning a lot of oil at 89,000 mi. No way that engine should do that~ Looking back, the dealer had to find the car for us, and by the time we got it, it had 55 miles on it. Not a ton of miles, but I will always wonder if whoever drove it up to our dealer drove it nicely. We followed the break- in period religiously, and in the end, we still had oil consumption issues. Following the break-in recommendations does not guarantee you will have a tight engine later down the road, but at least it gives you the chance at one....

 

+1

 

Is Full-Throttle = Flooring it? is going from 3000 to 4000rpm full throttle?

 

^^ Yeah, that's how its usually defined. We're talking throttle opening not RPM. IMO, no problem reving it up, but I wouldn't go into the 6K range till you're past 600 miles.

 

everything thinks there's a break-in period for new cars. That is not true. It WAS true for most of the older cars but the new ones dont have it. And even IF there was a break-in period, you dont want to baby the car. I'm not saying to beat the ever-living crap out of it, but dont baby it.

 

My 06 tsx had 138 miles on it as they had to do a dealer trade. I then drove the car from the dealer I bought it from in Pa to my home in NC (700+miles) I varied the speed, used cruise control on and off. My car now has 100,000+problem free miles.

 

100,000 miles in 4 years? damn

 

I didnt break my car in at all, lol...V-takd all the way home baby.

 

follow the manual...go easy for 600 miles and then enjoy v-tec!

 

after 10k miles, i still haven't fully accelerated in the TSX.

It has nothing to do with break-in period or anything...It's just that I don't like to be disappointed.

:P

 

Patience.

I can't say if it's true but what's the rush. Which is why I follow the manual and break her in.

We got our 2010 Base today!

 

Personally I could give a hoot about break in periods, I lease my cars and return them in 2-3 years and never had an issue with breaking in a car, perhaps if I bought them outright I would be more concerned.

 

I actually broke in my car by riding it hard. I got my TSX when it had 36 miles on it so I couldn't break it in within the 20 miles like when the article says, but the logic in that article makes sense.

http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm

 

Hmm...
so my TSX was a "Demo" car and the manager apparently drove it, has almost 5k miles(i just got it). Im crossing my fingers that it was broken in properly...it probably was right? right? O_O

 

Its a Honda product, you will probably total the vehicle in a accident before the car ever dies from what I have seen on this forum. Drive it like you stole it.

 

This is probably the most practical advice anyone could give with these cars. Most people won't keep a car long enough to realize the fruits of proper break-in...if there is even such a thing. Accidents, or how well you maintain your car will have more of an effect over the long haul. Two friends and I test drove my car when it had 1 mile on it. We drove about 15 miles total, a mix of city streets and stomping on the gas and going over 100mph. Am I worried about it? No. I'm generally all over maintaining the car in top shape all the time. I've maintained cars enough to see that how you treat it over the next 10 years has more of an effect than what you did in the first 100 miles.

 

^^Gotta agree with that. Our 96 Camry has been faithful all these 14 years and approaching 245k miles. The only way that reliability is possible is if you take care of the car. Well built cars cant last long if you dont take care of them properly in return

 

I don't have an opinion on this. I just drive the damn thing. Besides the damn things have knocking problems anyway so who the fuck cares. Your best off trying to blow your motor before the warranty is up so you can get a new one.

Audi turns the exhaust manifold on their R8 red hot before it even gets put into the engine bay. It's a 'are you worthy' of being in an R8 test.

Grigio X, the only person I've seen talk more shit about the TSX was the trailer park boy from VW Vortex. If the car is such a let down for you why not just sell it? I agree the car is no NSX but I didn't expect such a heavy car to accelerate like a R1.

 

What? Don't rev above 3K RPM? You must drive like a blind old person.

The engine in the base TSX easily revs over 3K from just normal acceleration around town when it shifts through gears.

I don't drive my TSX like I'm autocrossing it but I don't creep it around town either hoping my revs don't go too high before a shift. That's lame. Honda makes really good engines...they'll take a lickin' and keep on tickin'.

 

From what i've read and what i've seen, and with out reading this thread in its entirity, which probably makes my post useless...

Acura, as well as all the documentation on Acura states the engines are pre broken in, and the engines have already been flushed of all medal fragments etc. So from day 1 you can drive the car how you like to drive it with no worries about a "break in " period. Each engine is apparently tested and ran for a few hours before it is actually placed into the vehicle, which is a good thing and a bad thing I suppose.

There are so many videos of honda engines running forever though, even if you put water in the bitch instead of oil it wil still run for quite some time. ( so i saw in a video ) lololol. The car is women proof, made for women too. Majority of TSX owners are girls who like the way the car looks, sad but true.. Asian women too, which is why you see so many of them on the side of the road with there wheel a mile back, there bumper 300 feet ahead, and the fender on the other side of the road.

I pulled up to this asian woman in our car yesterday at a light, entire left side of her car just looks like she drove it a long a wall inside a parking garage, then the front bumper was smashed like she hit the wall infront of her in that parking garage after she finished side swiping her entire vehicle, The fog light was hanging out, and she still had her headlights on, probably with the dash dimmed so she had no clue what was going on. She looked happy as can be.

 

lololol funny post had to bump this thread up haha

 

no offense, but there's absolutely no way that you can be sure that an improper break-in period caused oil consumption after 90,000 miles. i realize that you're saying that "proper" break-in gives you a fighting chance down the road, but still...there's no real proof there either way.

 

I picked up my TSX last Saturday. On the way home I had it up to 90mph. I guess it is broken in now.

 

Bumpin old threads for fun
its my hobby

 

i thought breaking your car in meant breaking 110. wait no, thats poppin the cherry. i like that better, i swear its in the manual

honestly the car doesn't stay under 3k rpm, no way we'd need to do that for the first 600 miles. drive it how you'd like, thats what i've done

 

hahahhahaha thanks for bumping it.

 

lol you guys are hilarious