Ask anyone who drives a car. Passing lanes are in the U.S. where some actually use them that way. Up here, in Ontario at least, People drive slow in the "fast" lanes and fast in the slow lanes. Try driving on Highway 7 around Markham! LOL
If the car's being built next Tuesday the parts will be there as it starts down the line Monday.
Mike, are you coming to London today? My trade in was a torch red 2023 2LT HTC in Guelph and is still in the showroom at the dealership.
I guess I kind of booted the hornets nest when I mentioned changing your province. I didn't realize the territories wasn't an option and now see why you ordered out of Edmonton. Still at 2000 km drive for you to get back to Yellowknife as I don't know if the Mackenzie Highway is completely paved for the entire distance?
No. Need to head across the river to do some cross border stuff this afternoon.
Not necessarily. It takes less than 2 shifts to build a car. It may start on Tuesday morning and finish later that day. Of course the fenders are painted already etc.
Yeah sometimes you have to shake the tree . The highway has been paved all the way for years now actually. It’s in really good shape for the majority of it, no issues. The drive to Edmonton is about 1500 km so I usually get a room going in each direction. But the car will be over the halfway break in period by the time I get back. Just leave it in manual and go up and down the gears, vary the RPM and all should be fine. I’ll take my time and buzz around the Edmonton area for the first couple hundred kil before I hit the highway.
Going to have to lobby for a Corvette lane !
I drove 2 hours back on the highway from Cullens and just didn't use cruise. I found the pedal was lively enough that I couldn't keep the car at a steady speed anyway! LOL. I also would hang back a bit and then get on it a bit. If you don't floor it it will shift before the low red line.
Just don’t let the engine lug or use engine braking, keep the RPM between 2 and 4 thousand and all should be good. I should hopefully under those restraints still have my license by the time I get home, lol .
What is keeping you there after retirement or do you only spend summers there?
Take what the manual says with a grain of salt. The engines are run pretty hard at the plant before you get it.
Believe it or not I actually like it here. And except for the last couple of years, Covid being one reason obviously, we have always gone to the tropics for a couple of months in the middle of winter. Breaks it up nicely. There’s nowhere I would rather be in the summer. Play golf at midnight if you want. Surrounded by hundreds of lakes some of which have never been fished. We are on the shore of the ninth largest lake in the world. The weather is usually really good as well. And if you want to see a greenhouse produce think of the amount of light. I have already stashed away 15 freezer bags of heirloom and cherry tomatoes . So no hardship.
Saw a video where the GM Engineers were talking about break in . I will see if I can find it to post. My understanding is that they only run up the 5.5 litre z06 engines on the Dino , something has to be done about this auto correct, and the 6.2 ’s ship fresh. So from everything I can find, break in is definitely recommended.
They drive ALL the cars over rumble strips to a dyno and put them on a computer to do 800 tests.
Yes but how many miles are on the odometer when they are delivered? Or do they electronically reset them? I will dig up the video after I chow down. I mean they do recommend a 2440 km break in period so it must be for a reason. One issue I could see is if you don’t and something goes sideways with the drive train and they can extract the data relative to how the vehicle was driven where would you be with a warranty claim. Years ago when we were blowing up more engines than we should have we always broke them in after rebuilds . This auto correct is going to drive me mental. Took six tries to type engsinns . Lol .
Ya, do what you want. But realistically they are just telling you this stuff to save their ass. Today's machining tolerances make an extensive break-in period unneeded.
There does seem to be a number of opinions about this. I have been trying to find opinions from both sides of the debate. I certainly don’t see any drawbacks to Adhering to the factory recommendations though. Anyway I found this video. There is another I’ll look for that’s pretty interesting showing them running up the z06 engines on the dyno at the factory.
