Running-in a Car

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18467, 4 August 1934, Page 9

Running-in a Car

ABE you one of those people who shirk the job of running-in a new car? recently asked the London Daily Telegraph’s motoring correspondent. 1 can’t imagine that ' anyone, how-1 ever, onthusiUstuv .really enjoys it, though we know it has go: to be clone if we want the car to last as long and run as well as we have a right to expect. Gtories have been going round that running-in.has boon found by research experts not to be really necessary, but | don’l you believe it. Unless you are I so rich that you don 'r care, you must 'strictly abide by the maker’s instructions about speeds and lubrication for the.first '.’>{lo or, preferably, 10(H) miles

of Vise ear’s life—or get someone else to go through the motions for you. The latter is now possible. You can got your new car collected from the makers or the agent, run-in by properly qualified 'drivers at the set speeds, the oil changed at the appointed time, ail minor adjustments made, and the car delivered to you all ready for the road. '■Full running-in, 1000 miles,, taxes four days (instead of the month it would probably take you at the least), and the charges, which are inclusive, range from about £9 upwards, according to the size of the car.