How to break in a new truck

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  1. Midnightrider909

    Midnightrider909 Road Train Member

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    My wife and I will soon buy a new Volvo 780 with the D13 iShift combo. What, if anything, should we do to make sure we break it in properly?
     
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  3. Ridgeline

    Ridgeline Road Train Member

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    Take it easy, no drag racing with old men in a silver Prius.

    Just keep your foot out of it for a few thousand miles and when you do an oil change, get a OA done for a baseline.
    Speaking of oil ...
    Think about running synthetic.
     
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  4. Midnightrider909

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    Which company for OA?
     
  5. ladr

    ladr Road Train Member

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    Read the owners manual.

    Good luck.
     
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    What @ladr said.

    New trucks today don't require a break in like the old ones did. There may be a few initial extra maintenance items.
     
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  7. pmdriver

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    If you want a truck to run strong, run it strong so it knows what to do and blows out all the weak junk then replace with HD , if you want a weak truck, pay no attention, do no service. but still replace bad parts.
     
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  8. Ridgeline

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    I've been using blackstone for a long .... long time.

    The one fleet I bought was using apex and greenway. I think greenway is gone now but I get something from apex every few months.

    By the way. It isn't about breaking in the engine but the drive train, beat it to death when new it won't last.
     
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  9. reddove

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    I got my Volvo 780 brand new (2017) and what I did was do oil samples through a lab every oil change and here is what I found out. I used semi-synthetic 10-30 oil. The first year and a half change your oil around every 15,000 miles. It’s going to be throwing out a lot of metals and junk because it’s breaking in which is normal. You can drive your truck as normal. When you hit around the 160,000 the metals levels will start to level out and drop and you can start extending your oil changes to 20,000-25,000 miles depending on how you drive. The lab where I sent my oil samples is now telling that I should try and extend my next oil change to 27,000 miles and check again. My truck is now at 180,000ish miles. With the Volvo 780 don’t be surprised if you have to change all 4 of your batteries in a year. When the first one went out I let the dealership do it and they charged 300. When the others went I changed them myself and got the batteries from autozone. The batteries cost $100ish with the core return and $130ish with out it. The batteries from autozone have a CCA of 950-1000 and reserve of 195. Which is better than the OEM Volvo batteries of 170. And the batteries from autozone have a one year warranty. Also the Volvo has a lot of filters. 3 oil filters, a coolant filter, two fuel filters. Two cab filters. DEF filter (which you change at 150,000 miles which you should have done it cost about $750 and the dealership does it). I had to change an emissions sensor twice ( no charge warrenty repair) and then I had the steering pump replaced because it was making growling, bear like noises. After that the truck gave me no issues.
     
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    drive it like you stold it
     
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    Drive it like you stole it.
     
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