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Originally Posted by 5er_luvver
This is an interesting topic.
Could I ask a favour and we do a little survey?
For the guys that have little or no consumption of oil, how did you drive from new? Hard, as in with no break-in in mind, or to the rulebook - gentle for the first 1200miles?
And the same for the guys that have a lot of consumption of oil?
It'd be interesting to see if there's a pattern.
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we could do that, but i imagine it's going to vary by engine, so unless we specify it won't do much good.
personally, I was pretty gentle on the car for the first 1000 miles...which is about 500 more than I've ever given any other car.
As a side note I spoke to my sister in law's bf, who is a BMW tech and he said it's normal for this car (the 550).