"Need Guru" <needguru@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Thats it?
>
> The reason I asked the question was to see if how you broke it in had any
> correlation to how it performed later in life. In other words, if you
drove
> it hard during brake in, it had more get up and go than one that was
driven
> like a granny.

Only in the mind of the "break it in hard" crowd.

> "Stephen Bigelow" <sbigelowXX@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > "Need Guru" <needguru@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:bgqsgi01ovf@enews2.newsguy.com...
> > > Just took delivery of a 2003 civic LX sport 5 speed . It is brand new
> (20
> > > kms) and was looking for advice on how to break it in. Manual says to
> do
> > > "no hard acceleration" and "no hard breaking" for the first 1000 kms.
> > >
> > > anybody got thoughts?!
> > > thanks
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > No hard acceleration and no hard braking for the first 1000 kms.
> >
> >
>
>