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LYCAN · 01-26-2011, 02:37 PM

Just go easy on it for the first couple hundred miles and don't read too much into all of the hype around this. There are tons of opinions on this and people will clammor for days debating it. Just drive the thing normal for the first couple hundred miles and don't do any super hard acceleration for a while.

Here is what I do for break in:
1) Smooth on the brakes so they seat properly.
2) Drive normally with no hard acceleration.
3) Shift smoothly through all of the gears.
4) Fill with good 93 octane gas.
5) Vary the RPMs

01-26-2011, 02:37 PM	#9
LYCAN Tattooed K9 Drives: E63AMG Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Germantown, MD Posts: 278	Just go easy on it for the first couple hundred miles and don't read too much into all of the hype around this. There are tons of opinions on this and people will clammor for days debating it. Just drive the thing normal for the first couple hundred miles and don't do any super hard acceleration for a while. Here is what I do for break in: 1) Smooth on the brakes so they seat properly. 2) Drive normally with no hard acceleration. 3) Shift smoothly through all of the gears. 4) Fill with good 93 octane gas. 5) Vary the RPMs __________________ Regards, John '11 2SS Black/Black M6 Prior Project Cars: 96 WS6, 96 Steeda Cobra, 93/74/99/01ZO6 Vettes, Supra Turbo, and BMW M3.