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      09-30-2020, 06:19 PM   #6
erawamai
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Drives: BMW 330i G21
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Location: Sydney, Australia

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Originally Posted by truekumar View Post
So I just drove out the garage in a brand spanking new M340i XDrive today with only 3 miles on the engine. But I totally forgot about breaking the engine in!! I drove in sports plus all the way home and revved the engine quite high many times in my 40 mins drive back. I smelt some burning sort of odour by the time I got back.

Do you think I may have damaged something? I’ve bought this car for a long term ownership, so it’s not on a lease, I’m hoping that I haven’t done any long lasting damage to the engine.

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It's fine. A brand new car will have a new car smell for the first few hundred miles IME.
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