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Old 06-08-2014, 10:03 PM   #21
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Well I switched to synthetic kawa oil at my first oil change on my 1600 in 2008, no issues. I kinda doubt it would take 10,000 miles to brake in a tranny.
It's taken about 20K miles for my BMW to break in. It's not abnormal for a pre-water cooled boxer to take that long.
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