Shipping Driver Likely Took my New Supra on a 50 Mile Joyride!!!

[garudathree]

what likely happened was that the dealer allowed test drives on this car, and the shipper didn't really pay attention to actual miles at pick up of a new car, just signed the paperwork with generic miles info, wanting to get the job over with. I bet all new cars being picked up at that dealer have "1" mile on them. careless, yes, malicious, probably not. you'll be laughed out of any meaningful dispute venues, unfortunately.

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[BMWAF]

Depends where you are I guess. I drove mine from 0

Tell me your odometer was reset by the dealership, without telling me your odometer was reset by the dealership.

Beyond needing to be driven some throughout the shipping process, my understanding is that our cars in particular need to be driven a bit as part of the PDI process.

 

[itzTang]

Tell me your odometer was reset by the dealership, without telling me your odometer was reset by the dealership.

Beyond needing to be driven some throughout the shipping process, my understanding is that our cars in particular need to be driven a bit as part of the PDI process.

shhhh let him believe he got it with 0 odometer LOL he got that special special edition. Airlifted from assembly line to vessel to dealer.

 

[concept]

As you probably know, the break-in restrictions according to the manual are:
1200 miles
No higher than 4500 rpm and 100 mph

I refused to buy a used Supra after reading about many forum members' beating the heck out of the car without every correctly breaking it in. My car had 11-13 miles on it when I bought it.
I'm certain some people who lease the car, may not care, but even though I may not put 200,000 miles on this car, I would never wish the next buyer to have issues because of my carelessness.

 

[AJRMKV]

Tell me your odometer was reset by the dealership, without telling me your odometer was reset by the dealership.

Beyond needing to be driven some throughout the shipping process, my understanding is that our cars in particular need to be driven a bit as part of the PDI process.

They let me unwrap it before the PDI process upon delivery to the dealer. I was there when the shipment arrived.

I also know the guy who does the PDI process and his route.

 

[AJRMKV]

shhhh let him believe he got it with 0 odometer LOL he got that special special edition. Airlifted from assembly line to vessel to dealer.

Read ^..

 

[MK5_Ger]

As you probably know, the break-in restrictions according to the manual are:
1200 miles
No higher than 4500 rpm and 100 mph

Funny thing is that my local BMW dealership says to drive the cars until they have about 150km and are at operating temperature. Then go full throttle from 80kmh until 200kmh. Don't run them all the time at full throttle or max rpm but do pulls several times up to the 1600km mark.

Did that with 2 brand new cars.
0 oil consumption, no issues at all. The cars were driven hard on the Autobahn at 260kmh for hours.
With a prior Audi that was broken in carefully with little load and RPM it proved to be not so good. It had a good amount of oil consumption.

Just my opinion on this. The Supra will be fine.

 

[razorlab]

Funny thing is that my local BMW dealership says to drive the cars until they have about 150km and are at operating temperature. Then go full throttle from 80kmh until 200kmh. Don't run them all the time at full throttle or max rpm but do pulls several times up to the 1600km mark.

Did that with 2 brand new cars.
0 oil consumption, no issues at all. The cars were driven hard on the Autobahn at 260kmh for hours.
With a prior Audi that was broken in carefully with little load and RPM it proved to be not so good. It had a good amount of oil consumption.

Just my opinion on this. The Supra will be fine.

yup, modern “break in instructions” are more for making sure people acclimate to a car and things like the brakes get bed in. Nothing to do with breaking in an engine. They are already broken in during the assembly process.

@concept is lost in time.

 

[AJRMKV]

Funny thing is that my local BMW dealership says to drive the cars until they have about 150km and are at operating temperature. Then go full throttle from 80kmh until 200kmh. Don't run them all the time at full throttle or max rpm but do pulls several times up to the 1600km mark.

Did that with 2 brand new cars.
0 oil consumption, no issues at all. The cars were driven hard on the Autobahn at 260kmh for hours.
With a prior Audi that was broken in carefully with little load and RPM it proved to be not so good. It had a good amount of oil consumption.

Just my opinion on this. The Supra will be fine.

From what I’ve seen, if possible just pick a good dealer that you think you can trust. Some abuse the cars.

To be honest I haven’t noticed a difference in how any of these cars age as a result of the break in process or lack of it though.

At my dealer, anyone who’s buying a supra is notified when the shipment will arrive (when possible) and given the option to see it off the truck and meet the supra tech doing the PDI process. There’s also no mark ups at the dealer since it’s not legal where I live.

 

[ToyoBMW]

This is the longest running thread about basically nothing. 50 miles on a car when you bought it. I think you should contact the dealership and unwind the deal all together, they might've lied to you about the actual mileage on the car

 

[lucky phil]

yup, modern “break in instructions” are more for making sure people acclimate to a car and things like the brakes get bed in. Nothing to do with breaking in an engine. They are already broken in during the assembly process.

@concept is lost in time.

This is true and I've tried to explain this to motorcycle people and they wont believe me. The break in process is mainly for the new owner not the car or bike. I've seen 3 series come off the line In Munich, over the alignment pit and then into the rolling road cell and the operator then ran them through the gears at close to redline WOT. All the data was on a swing out display the driver could read from the seat and so could we. Things recording maybe 185kph and the operator is running through his checklist for stuff while it's blasting away. He gets off the throttle and gives the brakes a hit and then bangs it down the gears with the car dancing around and bumping off the side rollers until it stops and the rollers retract and he drives it to the holding area to be shipped to a customer somewhere in the world who's going to chew their nails to the quick worrying about exceeding the break in rpm on one occasion.
Phil

 

[itzTang]

This is true and I've tried to explain this to motorcycle people and they wont believe me. The break in process is mainly for the new owner not the car or bike. I've seen 3 series come off the line In Munich, over the alignment pit and then into the rolling road cell and the operator then ran them through the gears at close to redline WOT. All the data was on a swing out display the driver could read from the seat and so could we. Things recording maybe 185kph and the operator is running through his checklist for stuff while it's blasting away. He gets off the throttle and gives the brakes a hit and then bangs it down the gears with the car dancing around and bumping off the side rollers until it stops and the rollers retract and he drives it to the holding area to be shipped to a customer somewhere in the world who's going to chew their nails to the quick worrying about exceeding the break in rpm on one occasion.
Phil

no they just slap everything together and release. No need to test.

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