Breaking it in

[3forRoo]

Just waiting on picking up my new 3 and I was wondering what you all recommend for driving the car for the first 1000 km's. I always hear the two arguments; some say if you drive hard which I tend to do, then break it in hard but I've also heard that I should be softer on it until it is ready and then let it go. Give me your opinions, I'm an old school Honda boy from years back and finally made the change.

Roo

[beinkken]

mazda claims that there is no break in required but in the manual it will tell you to take it easy for the first 500 km, sort of. just no really fast takepffs, or really hard braking that sort of thing.

[Siphen]

There was in interesting discussion on the Mazda3 forum regarding break in. Different opinions and some interesting links.

Personally I chose to break mine in semi-hard

http://forums.mazdaworld.org/index.php?showtopic=4727