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Originally Posted by soooma
I am at 1150 miles now
And service is next week because of work,
Don have to wait till after Break In Sevice? To stomp on it?  |
It's up to you whether or not you follow what BMW recommends, however, from factory BMW fills with temporary fluids (not just engine oil); these are switched to long-life at the break-in service. There is a further break-in recommended in the owners manual (up to 3100 miles) although there is no service at that point.
Like any piece of machinery, the harder you drive it, and the more often, the more likely you are to cause premature wear or failure, if not to the whole car, perhaps to an individual component. It is designed to take some punishment, just depends on how you dish it out.
As an analogy, if you were drilling concrete with a standard masonry drill bit, would you do short bursts to power with cooling down periods, or just go for it until you saw sparks flying? Think of your M5 as a more complex version of that mechanical process...