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      02-22-2013, 12:33 AM   #19
Netwon
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Drives: '12 BMW M5 Alpine White
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Originally Posted by Jimefam View Post
I did my break in exactly according to BMW requirements on my 2011 550i and that thing drank oil to the tune of about 1qt/2000miles. Have a local who has the same car and he pushed the hell out of his right out of the gate and it never drank a drop.
I think it is important to remember what driving the car hard really means.
Here in Canada/USA we can not even using 1/5th of the M5's potential. I laugh in the owners manual where it says to increase speeds to 250km/h for passing briefly after 2000km/1200mi. Where I live at least the fastest highway is 110km/h and after 40km/h over that you have a mandatory court appearance. In Germany people are doing 180km/h right out of the gate. Just some food for thought.

I never hesitated to goose it now and then during the break in and have only had one top-up half quart top up at 800km, now at 8000km and still no call for extra oil.
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