View Poll Results: How to brake in an engine so that you get the most out of it? (performance no.1, reliability no.2)
Don't baby it, in fact drive it like you stole it (rev it to redline in the 1st kms/reach top speed)
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OK, so has anyone had a Munich tour where they showed engine assembly?
When I did the tour it was not shown...
When I did the tour it was not shown...
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Originally Posted by BetterMakeWay' post='311819' date='Jul 17 2006, 02:45 PM
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Here you guys go.
"All engine testing is done without using any fuel"!
Link to the site, then go Plant Tour and engines...
"All engine testing is done without using any fuel"!
Link to the site, then go Plant Tour and engines...
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Originally Posted by BetterMakeWay' post='312186' date='Jul 18 2006, 11:51 AM
Yes, this thing grows on me each and every day. I hope it grows enough till i get my next bmw, but it has lots of time to. 
BTW how did you brake-in your engine?
BTW how did you brake-in your engine?
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Originally Posted by Mercy' post='312296' date='Jul 18 2006, 03:30 PM
during ED on the autobahn --->enough said
Good answer.
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Originally Posted by Ricracing' post='312250' date='Jul 18 2006, 10:00 PM
Here you guys go.
"All engine testing is done without using any fuel"!
Link to the site, then go Plant Tour and engines...
"All engine testing is done without using any fuel"!
Link to the site, then go Plant Tour and engines...
How come then in that pic the exhaust glows red? Sure that is hot testing
We should get more about that cold testing (like for instance weathere is there any kind of movement into the cylinders if the pistons work or not driven by any force they use).
At final assembly they show how the car is run at maximum speed on some kind of a dyno (a tester). If that doesn't get the pistons running i dunno what does.
Thank you for the link though. Great link. I still think that the pistons are already ran-in before we get to proper brake it in, one way or the other.
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Originally Posted by Ricracing' post='312250' date='Jul 18 2006, 12:00 PM
Here you guys go.
"All engine testing is done without using any fuel"!
Link to the site, then go Plant Tour and engines...
"All engine testing is done without using any fuel"!
Link to the site, then go Plant Tour and engines...
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Whatever we learned (or not) of this writing...
If you buy your car with your own money and you want to
keep it as nice and good as you can - just brake it in!
But do not buy of these lease/race guys a secondhand E60.
If you buy your car with your own money and you want to
keep it as nice and good as you can - just brake it in!
But do not buy of these lease/race guys a secondhand E60.
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Originally Posted by Ricracing' post='313302' date='Jul 21 2006, 12:36 AM
Whatever we learned (or not) of this writing...
If you buy your car with your own money and you want to
keep it as nice and good as you can - just brake it in!
But do not buy of these lease/race guys a secondhand E60.
If you buy your car with your own money and you want to
keep it as nice and good as you can - just brake it in!
But do not buy of these lease/race guys a secondhand E60.
What's that suppose to mean?
