[ORIGIN M.]

I am only 425 miles on the clock. I ain't no saint.

I will talk more about my travels thus far but tell me how well did you do?

[horsepower_and_hounds]

I never exceeded the rpm requirement or did WOT pulls but besides those two items I varied the shit out of the load, took it to the mountains and drove it pretty hard under the 4500 requirement Then dyno'd it at 2000 miles for its first WOT and it did not blow up

[No Boost]

Vary the load as stated above. Perform engine braking also.

[jonahk]

Varied RPMs as stated, kept (mostly) below 5K rpm and I only did one kickdown on the freeway but that only brought the RPMs up to about 5500.

Dealer reminded me they do a run up on these cars before the leave the factory and mentioned the only thing that really needs to be broken in is the clutch pack in the diff. That's why they change/inspect that fluid before they flag it as broken in and the car can be driven the way it was built to be driven.

[alekzzz]

2 minutes after leaving dealership I hit red line on 1st, 2nd and 3rd

I did it same way Motoman recommended years ago, i did all my previous cars and motorcycle this way:
- proper warm up
- high load acceleration to red line and deceleration in multiple gears
- avoid constant speed till first service
- oil change at 40km and 1000 km

regular driving after first service...

[M3 Alex]

Originally Posted by alekzzz

2 minutes after leaving dealership I hit red line on 1st, 2nd and 3rd

I did it same way Motoman recommended years ago, i did all my previous cars and motorcycle this way:
- proper warm up
- high load acceleration to red line and deceleration in multiple gears
- avoid constant speed till first service
- oil change at 40km and 1000 km

regular driving after first service...

Same here! Happy to see another sane person around here.

[S1monQc]

Dyno break-in.

[ORIGIN M.]

Originally Posted by S1monQc

Dyno break-in.

Now that's funny

[S1monQc]

Originally Posted by ORIGIN M.

Now that's funny

Yeah just trollin' lol

But I do lots of turbo spoolin' and full throttle up to 5-5,5K RPM and engine braking

I'm at 800 kms (500 miles) and the car is put away atm for winter

[AndrewC1989]

Normal city driving is a good enough brake in. What you wanna stay clear from is long distance highway driving where the rpm's don't vary much for extended periods of time.

[ORIGIN M.]

Originally Posted by S1monQc

Yeah just trollin' lol

But I do lots of turbo spoolin' and full throttle up to 5-5,5K RPM and engine braking

I'm at 800 kms (500 miles) and the car is put away atm for winter

I am @ 495 currently I have been very good for my driving style must stay out of sports plus to keep myself in check.

I know what the car can do I have driven 2 others at full tilt. Man this car can put a smile on any face. So sweet.

[horsepower_and_hounds]

Originally Posted by ORIGIN M.

I am @ 495 currently I have been very good for my driving style must stay out of sports plus to keep myself in check.

I know what the car can do I have driven 2 others at full tilt. Man this car can put a smile on any face. So sweet.

Boy you need to drive that car. I went out and did drives around the 485 belt way (68 miles) on weekends to add up miles since the mans had snow Of course varying the load and speeds irritated drivers

[ORIGIN M.]

Originally Posted by m2ruder

Boy you need to drive that car. I went out and did drives around the 485 belt way (68 miles) on weekends to add up miles since the mans had snow Of course varying the load and speeds irritated drivers

Yeah man well it's been raining like crazy as of late.

Washing her today and taking a day drive including a super long lunch.

[Lus8aPilot]

Still breaking it in. I'm doing as many backroad drives as I can, under 5500rpm. Once warmed up I'm getting on it a bit, probably 80% throttle.

In the rain trying to avoid triggering traction control as I think we're breaking in the diff more than the engine.

[ORIGIN M.]

Originally Posted by Lus8aPilot

Still breaking it in. I'm doing as many backroad drives as I can, under 5500rpm. Once warmed up I'm getting on it a bit, probably 80% throttle.

In the rain trying to avoid triggering traction control as I think we're breaking in the diff more than the engine.

I got on it 80/90% today..

I hit 6000 more than once.

The car is absolutely lovely.

[M3 Alex]

It doesn't take much to break a motor in these days. I don't know why folks still follow the old methods from the 70s and 80s. Definitely not suggesting you bounce off the rev limiter in every gear and slam gears as hard as you can, but rev her up and use engine breaking like stated above. The "don't drive for extended periods at the same engine speed" is good advice. Just change gears, yo.

Oh, and I know one of you said "break her in on the dyno" as a joke, but that's actually a great controlled and safe way to break an engine in. How do you think the guys with purpose-built race cars do it?

[akkando]

Originally Posted by M2 Alex

I was out doing power slides and hitting redline with just 200miles on the car today in the rain. It doesn't take much to break a motor in these days. I don't know why folks still follow the old methods from the 70s and 80s. Definitely not suggesting you bounce off the rev limiter in every gear and slam gears as hard as you can, but rev her up and use engine breaking like stated above. The "don't drive for extended periods at the same engine speed" is good advice. Just change gears, yo.

Oh, and I know one of you said "break her in on the dyno" as a joke, but that's actually a great controlled and safe way to break an engine in. How do you think the guys with purpose-built race cars do it? ?

Here is what I don't know. I don't know why people like you are confused why people follow the directions in the manual.

Now I will concede the procedure in the manual might not the best way, it may be written by lawyers and not engineers, but I am not confused why people follow the directions in the manual.

[alscks0414]

Completely avoided freeway drive.
Varying RPM upto 4.5k with varying speed (driving in local will let you vary spped).

Keeping it under 3k rpm until the car is warm.
No kick-down.

No engine oil changes were made before break-in service.
No sit-still idle for long time periord.

Now break-in is done and slowly going maxing the RPM by 500 rpm per 500 km reached redline now. However, still avoiding long driving on freeway.

[M3 Alex]

Originally Posted by akkando

Here is what I don't know. I don't know why people like you are confused why people follow the directions in the manual.

Now I will concede the procedure in the manual might not the best way, it may be written by lawyers and not engineers, but I am not confused why people follow the directions in the manual.

Totally valid. Apologies if I came off snobby... The manual simply says to keep RPMs under 5,500 and no full load/kick-downs, so there's not a lot there.

I don't subscribe to the all the old methods, but to each his/her own. You'll either be laughing at me in 10 years, or we'll both have forgotten this conversation, and everyone will still be doing the same thing they used to.

[akkando]

Originally Posted by M2 Alex

Totally valid. Apologies if I came off snobby... The manual simply says to keep RPMs under 5,500 and no full load/kick-downs, so there's not a lot there.

I don't subscribe to the all the old methods, but to each his/her own. You'll either be laughing at me in 10 years, or we'll both have forgotten this conversation, and everyone will still be doing the same thing they used to.

Well if I have problems with the car in 10 years I will wonder if I did it wrong. There won't be anyway to really know for sure though, sadly there isn't a lot of good data on this type of thing on semi modern cars. At any rate I bought the car in Southern California and drove it home to Northern California. Not the best way to break in the car by anyone's advice, so we'll see.... Had to get through an hour and a half of LA traffic before the highway though lol. So far so good though, not burning oil.

[M3 Alex]

Originally Posted by akkando

Well if I have problems with the car in 10 years I will wonder if I did it wrong. There won't be anyway to really know for sure though, sadly there isn't a lot of good data on this type of thing on semi modern cars. At any rate I bought the car in Southern California and drove it home to Northern California. Not the best way to break in the car by anyone's advice, so we'll see.... Had to get through an hour and a half of LA traffic before the highway though lol. So far so good though, not burning oil.

A good leakdown test and lack of oil consumption are pretty good indicators

[McPurrs]

They already run them up to redline when they build it. I followed what they suggested in the manual, as they list it in the manual. Many vehicles do not mention anything.