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Originally Posted by B-Line
It's my opinion that you guys are over worrying.
The theory on break in procedures vary anyway. Some people say break it in gentle, others say, break it in you like stole it.
My vote goes with the later theory. Smash that throttle, stand on those breaks, stress that vehicle to the near breaking point (not that there is a breaking point..)
Cause if something is going to happen to the car, I'd rather it happen when the car is brand new. Let it happen when the dealer is standing behind the car and the deal.
Breaking in cars slowly was a technique of old. But with synthetic oils, computers, drive by wire, etc. I've heard many people say that I trust, that breaking in a car slowly can do more damage than good and the car should be broken in the way you plan to drive it.
Matter of fact, when I get in a new car that is mine, one of the first things I do is put a heat cycle on the brakes. Get em so hot that they smell and smoke, to bed the pads and create a chemical bond between pad and rotor.
And again, if anything is going to break on the car, i'd rather it break when the car is right off the lot or before it's turned over to me.
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Perhaps, over-worrying. It's not that I expect that the car would be at any higher risk of damage with either method of "breaking in"... I am simply stating that if I am buying a car for 100 rather large thousand dollars, I want to be aware of the nature of each and every mile that went into the car. It's just me - same reason that every one of our cars has had a paint finish better than the vast majority of brand new cars sitting on dealers' lots - no matter at what stage of its life span they are.
Sure, you can opt to break-in a car using the theory that one should drive it like you stole it - but, and to me, it is a VERY big but - using this method, there is STILL a method to breaking it in. One should cycle the engine utilizing the entire rev range, in a methodical manner - not just driving the car hard for ten miles (i.e. - on a test drive, lasting a very short duration of time), then having the car being driven sedately for the next customer... etc., etc.
Simply, I guess I was just making the statement that in light of the fact that BMW
does recommend a certain break-in procedure, then those who test drive the cars, should be respectful of this. The car logs this info - I sure wouldn't want this info to be coming back to bite me in the ass, should anything go wrong.
Let me this way put it. Say you just picked up your brand new, zero miles M3/M6/X5M/X6M. We just meet for the first time. Would you be happy for your car, if I jumped in your new M, and bagged the crap out of it and then just said "thanks - see ya".
Likely, nothing is going to go wrong with the car. I'm just saying that there are potential caveats to buying such a car, and also, that those test driving the cars, should respect this fact.
Rant off
