Welcome to the club! Here's an old post by "crabman" about break in.
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I'm an engineer. There is no benefit to ring seal that can be attained after the car has left the factory. No directed driving style can either make bad ring seal better or cause you to lose the ring seal you had. It cannot be altered in any way by a buyer through any kind of directed driving style in any way. It's been years since you could even get a diesel engine that could have ring seal issues and that includes the commercial sector where engines are ran on a load cell before leaving the factory. There are a few exceptions to this such as very large engines which even when new are assembled in place and first ran on site. That leaves me the only large area where ring seal is affected by initial startup operation. That is on brand new rebuilds that have not been run. The largest sector in that business is the marine industry where engines are normally "in-framed" in place rather than removed from the vessel. In this case the in frame will not be warrantied unless started up by their own technicians who will run it for about 1 to 2 hours to make sure the load is within their specs to achieve ring seal. If it is not done at that time the engine will be an "oil burner" and nothing can get it back until the next in frame.
None of that applies to this car, ring seal has already been attained at the factory and no of us can do anything to change it by any directed operational parameters of any kind.
While there are other things the two primary break in operation needs are the trans and diff. The brakes also need it but they typically wont be hurt by any kind of operation that includes taking it easy in the first miles. The trans and diff will overheat if too much load is applied before the surfaces have mated. This causes the oil to overheat leading to all the usual lubrication failures that can happen and that heat will make the gears softer with the practical loss out on the road being a weaker gear and more gear whine/noise.
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