Who keeps playing the cruel joke of bumping these threads back to the top??
BTW, I highly doubt Porsche would "deny your warranty" based on ANY data, unless maybe it showed that you actually did participate in a long and abusive track event, or drove the car for a couple hours as if you were in a race, which would probably land you on the evening news being chased by a police helicopter.
Use some common sense for chrisake... If they were in the practice of pulling your warranty due to ignoring the break-in spiel, that would effectively doom ALL dealer demo cars to voided warranties, as all the dealers and test drivers wring the living pi$$ out of those cars....
Besides, the typical ill-effects that could be caused by abusing the engine when it was new won't show up within the warranty period..... they'll show up as a knock or oil consumption 100,000 miles down the road, in the hands of some poor 2nd or 3rd owner who had no idea how the original owner hammered the car when new.
Also, if it's the cars that are beaten on during their supposed break-in period that always had early-life mechanical issues, don't you think it would be the Porsche service techs that would see them?? Those very same techs that will tell you straight to your face "that break-in procedure is overkill"... Doesn't really add up, now does it?? And if Porsche denied coverage due to failure to comply to break-in, don't you think the techs and the service managers would know of such unfortunate incidents, and tell you about that, instead of carelessly telling you to just "go have fun" (like the master tech of over 25 years experience said to me before I drove off the lot), in the interest of not having an angry customer come after them with a baseball bat for giving them lousy advise that wound up lunching their motor, and sticking the customer with the repair bill??
Again, it just doesn't add up, does it???
Do you think the yellow GT3 in KF's video was "broken in" prior to being offered up for absolute flogging? Puhleez...
Do you think that Porsche re-engines, or just crushes, all of the press cars they dole-out around the world, because they were beaten like redheaded stepchildren from 10 miles onward, and they would therefore be denied warranty coverage, or be any kind of mechanical embarrassment? Ummmm, NO, that doesn't happen.
Let's please stop talking about break-in. It's all too often like eunuchs discussing sex.
A thoughtful break-in "may" extend the life of your car's engine, and that's a good thing. I myself took her easy for the first thou', as I intend to keep my car quite a long time.
But conversely, if there's something amiss in the assembly or machining of any component in your motor, it's going to rear its ugly head, probably within the 1st 10,000 miles, REGARDLESS of how you broke the car in.
And that's my rant for June!!!
Glad I could get it off my chest...
