First 1000km

[Lev]

How important is it avoiding full-throttle starts and rapid acceleration on the first thousand or so kilometres can have a real knock on effects for the cars future performance or the new tech allows us to ignore such driving techniques?

[RuffCoupe]

Hi Lev

With modern engines they are pretty good to go from the start - although I still make sure that I drive in all rev ranges in the first 1000klm.

The oil in the new S550 isn't changed until the 15K service - I'll be changing mine soon, it has done 1069 klm so far.

When the cars are built, they are tested hot then sit at the dock for up to a month, then driven onto the ship, sit for another long period - lots of condensation building in the motor/oil.

Oil and filters are cheap insurance.

Cheers

J

[jiffy]

yup, drive it increasingly hard over the 1000km, they're ready to go from a couple of hundred k's and as long as you don't labour it or thrash it, you'll be fine