Well, tonite i was driving around, and i let my friend drive my car, he's a good guy, and he usually lets me use his stuff and i told him not to really go over 4k yet, and dont do any burnouts, well the road was slippery, so he kinda loss some traction, maybe launched from 2k and dropped the clutch, then he went to about 5200 in first, man i was so ____ed, but i was just wondering, how good are these engines, i know toyota engines are great, our 90 previa starts up in like 1 try, and our old camry had 140k miles on it and ran great, but my parents never abused their cars, i think im going to be driving it pretty hard after i hit 1000 miles any input?

 

Very common misconseption that you need to drive like a grandma for break in. Actually you should be driving the crap out of it every once in a while. I'm sure your engine is fine.

 

i think you should kick your friends ___. messing with someones car is like messing with their women, or man; whatever gets them off.

 

You just answered your own question... Assuming that Toyota used our 2.4 in the 1990 Camry. Either way, these engines are probably gonna last pretty well.

 

Read this: http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm

 

The toyota used a 2.0L (or 2.2 I forget) in the 1990 camry. I think they were still using the 3S-FE. But anyway it's a strong, proven, engine so no need to worry. But if I can offer you a bit of advice, NEVER let your friends drive your car.

 

when breaking in the engine it should experience all rpm ranges. the thing you don't want to do is drive at one rpm for a long period of time.

 

It's the truth. I let 2 of my friends drive it right after another. They both tried to shift into 4th at about 5000rpm and both of them missed 4th and went into 2nd. They both got hit.

 

damn, I can see 2nd into 5th or 5th into 2nd, but how do you mess up a straight shift down?

 

Don't let these friends drive your car ever again.

 

It will be fine...

I see alot of posts about worried people and over reving the engines...But they dont seem to think about how Toyota employees treated it before it left the lot. I had the TRD exhaust placed on...So do you think they took it easy after placing it on and cranking it up the engine in the garage?

 

Oh my lordy lordy...


He didn't even get to redline! Calm the heck down!

If it was so critical to never cross 5000rpm, or to even do ANY spirited driving at all, you can bet Toyota would include warnings all over the car and have the dealership staff counsel you when you picked it up. You think they would want to keep something like that a secret and then end up shelling out cash for warranty issues?

Now I ask you this.... How many of us test drove our cars? Did you drive completely like a blind old lady? I understand that many of us were on waiting lists to receive our cars, so we were typically the only potential buyers that ever drove our cars (I got mine with 1 mile)... But just think about all the tCs that DO get test driven by potential customers. Those cars are not being allowed to blow up for the sake of selling them. ;) My friend bought the first tC in my town, and it had over 500 miles on it, and had been test driven by a dozen people, including the sales staff, one of whom told us a dramatic story that involved him racing a Celica GTS (another new car on the lot). His car is just fine, btw. I'm sure the Celica is too. ;)

 

WHAT????

you didn't tell us who won...

 

heh when i bought my car yesterday, it was getting the new car detail. they said it would take 40 minutes... well my friend asked if we could test drive a car. the dealer said sure which one....... the xB with the rims... we put 36 miles on it... and every mile we dogged that car lol... so you know people do dog the cars when they test drive em..

 

Shouldn't hurt it at all, but with friends like that you could be in trouble in the future. I wouldn't let him behind the wheel of my car.

 

Well, he told us the tC won... But then again, my friend was looking at the tC and not the Celica, so...

:D :D :D

 

what if that person that was messing with your car is your woman or your man?
cause my gf open my door and there was wind and blew the door wide open and my door hit the car next to mine and make some scratches on it...and i don't know what to say to her...she's like..."oops...i am sorry..."..and i was like..."..............."

 

thats what im thinking...i mean cmon....is straight down....the opposite of up

 

I've done the 5th to 2nd once :? That sucked.

" My poor baby I'm so sorry!!! "

Can't imagine missing 4th from 3rd though... That's just... wow.

 

Too much excitement I guess...