Maintenance regime (Time & Distance or LongLife)

[Gryzor]

75 miles of scenic driving sounds good to me.  My dealer is only 7 miles away, 6 of which are on a fast, straight A road!  I'll just have to have fun around the little roundabouts near me, and storm off at the lights! lol

[Bill_the_Bear]

My morning commute is 12miles, 10 of which are on the A14 at 80 (ahem, I mean 70) mph... then the same to get home from work.  In a typical week that is 90% of my driving. 

If everything I've heard is right this is probably the worst possible way to run in a car!

[Gryzor]

My morning commute is 12miles, 10 of which are on the A14 at 80 (ahem, I mean 70) mph... then the same to get home from work.  In a typical week that is 90% of my driving. 

If everything I've heard is right this is probably the worst possible way to run in a car!

I wouldn't be too concerned.  Just mix it up with a few short runs at lower speeds around town and stuff, bit of stop-start.  To be fair, even 10 years ago my dad was a mechanic, and he said that the need to run cars in and nanny them was no longer really necessary as long as you are sensible about it.  With modern machining and tighter tolerances, I'm sure that's even more the case now.

[dubber36]

I wouldn't nurse it, or be afraid of high revs from day one. The thing is not to let it labour or put unnecessary stress on it. 5-6-7000rpm wont do it any harm if you've got there on 1/2 throttle.

[Rhyso]

Time & distance

The state of the oil being dropped on Longlife servicing is 

[Hawaii-Five-O]

Thanks for all your help on this folks.

Been doing lots of internet research (other forums & google) and everyone is saying the same. Use the Time & Distance regime unless you're a rep who does 20k + per year mainly on motorways.

So, I'm defo going to go on the time & distance maintenance regime, especially with my annual mileage (10k approx pa).

Do I have to ask my supplying dealer to set the car for T&D or is it done at the factory?

Cheers

[JonnyG]

Do I have to ask my supplying dealer to set the car for T&D or is it done at the factory?

Just book it in for its first service when it's due on T&D (is it still 10,000 miles or 1 year with the MK7?) and tell them you want a T&D 1st service and ask them to set it T&D for remaining services.

[monkeyhanger]

They'll change it to T&D automatically unless you tell them not to - it's more money in their pockets to do so, and if you get the service pack it is all T&D services only included on that so they'd have to change it anyway.