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Hi,
I hopefully will be picking up a new Jimny early next week and have a trip planned early next month down to Brisbane from central Queensland, ( about 600km each way) all the run in advice says dont stick to the same speed for long periods but thats kind of the nature of the highways here, we will break up the journey a bit but the first part will likely be over 500km then will be a few short trips and trails before we head back.
Modern cars are produced to such fine tolerance these days that running in periods are nothing like as long or indeed as vital as they were with old clunkers like the BMC a series. That's not saying be rough with it but equally there's no reason to baby it either.
Temeraire (2018 quasar grey automatic)
One of the last 200ish of the gen3s, probably.
ADOS Attention Deficit Ooooh Shiny!
It will be absolutely fine. Imagine how many work/business/lease/hire vehicles go straight to work doing long trips from day one, and go one to clock up hundreds of thousands of miles. The vast majority of cars don't get "run-in" at all.
Hi,
I hopefully will be picking up a new Jimny early next week and have a trip planned early next month down to Brisbane from central Queensland, ( about 600km each way) all the run in advice says dont stick to the same speed for long periods but thats kind of the nature of the highways here, we will break up the journey a bit but the first part will likely be over 500km then will be a few short trips and trails before we head back.
Is this likely to be bad for the new car ?
So, just don't stick to the same speed for long periods. You can control the speed of the vehicle whilst on a long trip, even on a highway. I've done pretty much what you're describing, pick up a new car on Wednesday and make a three hundred km trip on Friday, returning on Sunday,
If it doesn't say in the manual then the general advice is
- keep the revs below 3,000 for the first few hundred miles;
- increase the revs over a period of time;
- don't accelerate hard and don't brake hard either.
Usuaully they recommend journeys that get the engine up to temperature and not too long at first, then build up the distance/time running.
Remember the first service interval, often 500 miles, some vehicles get loads adjusted after 500 miles and others hardly anything.
Modern engines are much better and don't require the same running in as vehicles 30 years ago, however, thngs like brakes still do.
2020 blue SZ5 (one of the last to be registered in the UK)
Ex 2011 Blue Jimny SZ4
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