Picking up new Auto Jimny Run in period

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 ?

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.

Chicken wrote:

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.

DrRobin wrote:

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;

 

Hard to do at highway speeds in a Jimny I imagine, especially a 4 speed auto.

I guess I will do a few runs to the beach and just take it easy as much as possible.

Ducked into the dealer this morning to see how things are going, its basically done, just waiting for underbody and engine bay rust protection.

I should have taken a few snaps looks pretty good on the ironman gvm upgrade 2 inch lift with 215/75/r15 Kumho AT52s, the ironman bullbar and snorkel.  

its addictive modding isnt it, still so many things I want to do, the long range tank will be useful here, the towbar, mostly for a decent recovery point on the back, underbody protection, probably starting with the radius arm points and a winch as to be fair will probably be going out solo for the most part.

Then you have to think of a name ??