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01-04-2013, 05:23 PM | #23 |
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If going over 5k RPM would fuck up the car that bad, they would have put in an electronic limiter during the break-in period.
Everybody revs past during break in. Doesn't do anything. I can almost guarantee they redline all motors before they leave the factory to ensure that they are built properly.
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01-04-2013, 05:23 PM | #24 |
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Hit 125 mph on the autobahn with less than 50 miles on the car. Just couldn't help myself.
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01-04-2013, 07:58 PM | #26 |
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Some people like to follow with that break in stuff, but personally I drove it like I wanted and went to 8300 sometimes and the car drives just fine at 3500miles. It's all personal preference.
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01-04-2013, 08:15 PM | #27 |
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Just make sure the engine is warmed up to close to operating temperature.
Then use it as it was intended. Just don't abuse it. I get giddy watching the shift lights so I'll run it, WOT or close, to redline, sometimes several times a drive. That's nothing for this car. If it were an issue the M3s we drove on my 5 trips to the 'Ring would haven been dropping like flies. There were only wrecks, maybe only one breakdown that I recall. You are fine, your car is fine.
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My normal new-engine break-in procedure is: Three full heat cycles below 5,000 rpm, (meaning car/engine/transmission/fluids/etc. completely cooled back down to ambient between each cycle) using gently varying loads to bring things up to temp and seat/bed parts, etc. On the fourth day: gentle warm-up driving is followed by progressively harder loading at full-throttle in both combinations of tall-gears/low-rpm and and also short-gears/high-rpm. I do not reach nor exceed redline at any time prior to the first service/oil-change, but I do approach it occasionally after those first three heat cycles. Normal use following break-in: I do not baby it, nor do I ever abuse it. It is driven hard on various roads, freeways, canyons and race tracks (like intended), but always driven respectfully (gently) until fully up to proper operating temperatures. I can't directly attribute anything to my break-in procedure, and I might have just gotten really lucky (perfectly assembled/balanced/fitting engine, luck-of-the-draw, etc.) but my M3 has never burned a drop of oil, since mile-zero. The level stays exactly constant from change-to-change, every time, and the engine is stronger/faster than ever. The icing on the cake: It is incredibly quick for a stock E9x M3. I generally do not drag race it, aside from the occasional childish pissing contest, but I do drive it hard in appropriate settings, including at several California race tracks. It has never failed to pull-away from a C63, other E9x M3s or newer 5.0 Mustangs on the straights. It isn't super-naturally fast, and it certainly cannot touch a GTR, Z06, 911Turbo or any Super/Turbocharged M3, but it has done a sub-4 0-60 and as I said, doesn't loose to other cars that are supposed to be close or slightly quicker than its performance. Also, my particular E90 may just be the perfect combination: No sunroof and no folding rear seat, because after 12,000 miles, warm/cold, smooth road/rough road... it still has ZERO rattles or squeaks. I take no credit for any of this. I think I just got lucky! -Sean |
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01-05-2013, 05:14 PM | #29 |
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They do it all day long during "test drives" to sell a car. No big deal. They beat the living crap out of it without even warming up the car and then sell it......
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