Break-in question on long road trip home

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ekalb

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I am picking up my 2023 (at msrp) about 500 miles away from home. That was about the closest dealer selling what I wanted without a markup. It also took me calling someone that far away to actually be treated like a human for having the audacity to try to buy something at sticker.

I am familiar with break in procedures and how you shouldn't just stay at idle for hours or even a steady highway speed for hours. Unfortunately, that's what my trip home will mostly consist of. Am I overthinking it to take the trip a bit slower and take random stops to drive some side roads to vary load/speed?


I should point out that I am coming from a 2019 F150 3.5 Lariat that I bought new and has needed the cam phaser rebuilt amongst many other issues. I don't have a ton of faith in Ford....so of course doubling down and getting a Raptor was the only logical choice :)

Just trying to avoid any potential self inflicted damage where I can.
 

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I drove mine from the Atlantic to Pacific, and there were plenty of times when it stayed at one speed for hours through the Midwest. I was dead set on trying to vary the speeds, but It's pretty tough to do. Just don't floor it for the first 1000 miles even though someone at the dealer probably already did with less than 100 miles on it lol.
 

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Just vary the speed and throttle inputs a bit, avoid excessive speed, wot, and cruise control.
 

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I know this is for the TRX/Hellcat, but it’s actually a solid method if you’re really worried about it.

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done basically that with every car/truck & bike (more strict, was like rpm limited for 1000 miles in 500mi intervals) and all of my stuff has been over 100k no issues unless it was an issue with mods/tuning.

Dads trackhawk has 106k miles and only issues have been halfshafts and he broke it in per manual.

Also im a big amsoil guy, but i also run the blend or dino oil for the break in period then switch to fully synthetic.

When we picked up one car across the state, the drive back was absolutely boring as hell keeping the speed low and decel/accel all the time. Taking backroads helped.

Of course this all depends, people can run these guys like normal or like hell and generally dont have much issues. Although from the bike forums the general consensus is dont cruise too long, rev it too high, and dont idle just drive it.
 
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