Call me crazy...

Hey all, long time listener, first time caller.

Pulled trigger on a 2020 1794 today. When I took it on the test drive it had 6 miles on it.. only 6! We went on the highway and had to give the engine some juice to avoid a not so nice driver on the merge. How much is it typical to baby the engines in their infancy? Will getting up to that 4-5k rpm range on a merge matter? I know the break in rule of thumb is some kind of general restriction for 500 miles. Just want to know what to look out for if I have cause any problems on my truck... that has 6 miles. ha! Thanks.


-Max

 

You are Crazy!

 

Good to know I am not the only one who thinks so had to confirm. Don't have to baby them that much?

 

You’ll be fine. Just take it easy the first few hundred miles. Occasional hard acceleration due to traffic conditions won’t hurt anything.
Congrats on the new truck.

 

Nothing to do with that really.

You asked to be called Crazy plain and simple.

These trucks are not china dolls so easily broken though so I would avoid driving for hours at high RPMs but normal pattern driving to avoid the insane should be just fine.

I imagine the owners manual advises exactly how the suggest you drive during the break in period too.

 

Thank you. You guys know your stuff. Always puts the mind at ease. Ill throw up some pics in another post shortly.

 

Congrats and Welcome.

 

Howdy from DFW and

 

I did a 200ft burn out and a figure 8 out of the dealer lot 170,000 miles ago...it still lives to tell the tale.

 

New owner's worry about hurting their baby, but in fact, most never keep a vehicle long enough to see reduction in service life. If you plan keep the truck 30 years, or sell/trade a maximum-value clean used truck, then probably best to follow their recommendation to "take it easy" for the first few hundred miles. If there was real risk of owner-inflicted damage, not including running with no/low/dirty engine oil, then Toyota wouldn't offer an extended drive train warranty.

Ideally, on any high-performance engine, good practice is to avoid sporty driving until engine oil temperature is stabilized at normal operating temperature. Since Tundra doesn't have an oil temp gage, you can use coolant temp, but run it a few minutes more before romping on it (oil temp typically lags coolant temp).

 

I had a brand new, less than 100 miles 4runner, and had to pass a frac string. About 20 seconds at wide open throttle starting from 65 mph. lol. it was fine.

 

Welcome from NY.

 

Congratulations and welcome.

 

welcome from the Bay Area, CA.

from my homeboy Manual. he knows a lot about the Tundra. of course there are other methods especially from those that build and tune motors but imo you can never go wrong starting off with following Manual's guidance.

pg 186 4-1.
Before driving
Breaking in your new Toyota To extend the life of the vehicle, observing the following precautions is recommended:
●For the first 200 miles (300 km): Avoid sudden stops.
●For the first 500 miles (800 km): Do not tow a trailer.
●For the first 1000 miles (1600 km):
• Do not drive at extremely high speeds.
• Avoid sudden acceleration.
• Do not drive continuously in low gears.
• Do not drive at a constant speed for extended periods.