[yankee]

Funny thing, I found it by mistake just when I was about to start compromision on options and color... and boom! a wild yellow appeared in the listing

[protovack]

Welcome to the club! Here's an old post by "crabman" about break in.

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.

[beflat10r]

Nice! Exciting! Have fun.

[whitelightning011]

Very nice color. Enjoy it!

[karmatourer]

Congrats! I got my Bright Yellow RS 2 months ago. M6 V6 though. Too good of a deal to pass up but the color is growing on me. Folks are usually surprised to see an elderly person get out of a yellow sports car!

[Reefblue42]

Very happy for you, gorgeous car! Happy motoring!

[Memphis SS]

Congrats

[SSShark]

Beautiful ride. Congrats and enjoy!

[NYJets12]

Congrats

[Zack46]

[ItsChristianInHD]

Congrats!!

[yankee]

Thanks everyone!

[wjones14]

Originally Posted by yankee

Funny thing, I found it by mistake just when I was about to start compromision on options and color... and boom! a wild yellow appeared in the listing

Congrats on the car and the color!

In late 2004 I was looking to order the new S197 2005 Mustang. I wanted a "low maintenance" color that looked good even when dirty. I initially ordered a silver car. A week or two after putting in the order, I found one on a lot and hated the color when I saw it in person. So I had to scramble and figure out what to change it to. I drove to a dealership that had a variety of colors on the lot. It had recently snowed and the cars were partially covered with melting snow, and most had never been cleaned after coming off the truck. So it was easy to tell which colors hid the dirt well and which did not.

The yellow was one of the best at hiding dirt and I decided on that. When I asked the salesman to change to yellow, he resisted, saying I might not be happy with it. "It's not stealthy" is one thing he said. And then he said something like "it's like being out drinking and it looks great while you're out, but when you see it in the morning, you ask 'what did I do?'"

But I stuck with the yellow, had that car for 10 years, and never ever regretted the choice. The car was still getting compliments from strangers 10 years later on how good it looked.

Good luck with yours.

[6sigma]

Congrats! Color looks great!!