That's why i ordered my car, well one of the reasons. Took it off the lot with 6 miles on it. Never even test drove a new Mustang before I ordered it. Went in, did pre-lim paperwork, and then the salesman made me go out and take one for a spin to make sure I still wanted the order. I told him, "I don't need a test drive, but sure let's go." Like love at first sight, sometimes you just know.

A week after getting her with 6 miles on her, I went and drove her down to see my best friend in GA. Ended up putting over 1300 miles on her the first weekend I had her.

My Precious...

Lanniman

 

That's crazy, lol. Someone got a "broke in" Cobra!

 

It's funny that people are worried that someone "did a burnout" in their car. Like you aren't going to do 1000 more...

 

Mine had 8 miles on it, but I also agree with taco, enjoy, its your car and if you are happy, well you are happy!
bought a 97 Monte Carlo, new.....had 5000 miles on it, I did'nt know any better. They said the secretary drove it. LOL.

 

I told them when I ordered it that it had better not have any miles that were not absolutely neccessary (like assembly line to lot, lot to rail car, rail car to transport, etc.) or I wouldn't take delivery. I got it with 2 miles on it.... exactly as I ordered it. My biggest concern was that it wouldn't be broken in the way I wanted it broken in .... so when I signed the paperwork (never test drove it... or any other S197), I fired it up, waited for it to get to operating temperature, and I broke it in hard as hell. Didn't burn out, or hit the rev limiter, but I ran thru 80% of the RPM range at 80% throttle in the bottom 4 gears, then downshifted while braking pretty firmly, then ran it up again. Did that 3 times, then called it good.

The point of my story is..... if the people that put the first 200 miles on it were floggin' it.... it probably wasn't a very bad thing.... There are 2 schools of thought for breaking in new motors these days..... It just means that the more controvercial method was selected FOR you. Don't sweat it.... you have a warranty... if anything is going to go wrong because of it... it should manifest itself before 36K is up... you'll see white/blue smoke when you start it up, or lose compression, etc... If you don't see that or notice a decrease in power... then I wouldn't give it a second thought.

 

That's why I ordered mine to my specs. Didn't want a bunch of yahoos being in it first and "seeing what it could do". You're right, there's nothing you can do, you saw it when you bought it.

 

Looks like someone else got a "slightly used" car

 

Mine had 300 miles on the clock, I figured if something was gonna break it would already have. Besides, it's under warrantee. 11,000 miles later the only problem I’ve had is the little plastic **** on the seat back broke. Other than that the car’s been perfect.

 

I was pretty paranoid about who test drove my car before me, that's why I custom ordered. The car came with 5 miles on it! But for the most part, I don't think 200 miles of test drives would do too much harm though. Not everyone is going to flog it

Now that I think of it....

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2.2 miles. Thanks anyway.

 

Cavero, your avatar reminds me of my test drive!!

 

mine was driven from indy so it had that miliage pluse another 150 or so. I think it was used by a salesman and his wife for a while. had fingernail marks on the passenger side hoor handle endent. Lost of them rubed right out with clay bar and a wax job.

 

LOL, gives me flashbacks too

 

My Stang had about 2 miles when it arrived at the dealership.

 

Have you ever heard of "break in?" What does the owner's manual say about it?

As for the 'new' method of a hard break in, I don't buy it. I work for an engine manufacturer and have spoken with design engineers there, along with some who work for other automotive companies that design and build engines. All recommend against it. I'm not going to bet against that knowledge.

 

I'm with you. I did some research into the "hard break in" theory, and that research + advice from my friend who's an engineer at Honda, has led me to conclude that it's not effective.

 

I've always subscribed to the easy goes it break in theory but not for my GT, I'm using the what I feel at the moment break in method. So if I feel like burning the rears and breaking them loose then so be it. If I feel like getting on it and tearing out like there ain't no tomorrow then so be it.

Hey I have my Mobil 1 loaded in it and I'm at 600 miles now, If I wait for the slow as she goes method it may be a while before I can cut loose and I simply can't wait...................

I just want to have fun and live for the moment, the moment is now and I’m very OK with this way of car driving. After driving for 38 years the humble way this is so much more fun, should have used this method years, and years ago. ha

 

mine had 6 miles on it.

 

4.8mi on it

little over 1500 I think now....

 

34 miles brand new here. 6 of those miles were put on by me.