Running In

[Gnasher]

AA says its an hour longer, same mileage. Not sure I'm prepared to do that.

It's only an hour of your life to get more enjoyment/reliability from your car for all the time you own it. If it were me, I would get off the motorway and probably have a more enjoyable drive there in my new car!

[charv94]

AA says its an hour longer, same mileage. Not sure I'm prepared to do that.

So why bother asking the question? People have advised the best course of action from personal experiences.

I was asking whether the journey on the motorway was advisable. I'm entitled to not wish to undertake their suggestions. I am happy with the response of changing gear, varying speed rather than a and b roads. So i got an answer thank you very much

[mcmaddy]

The fact you said you weren't sure if you were prepared to take an hour longer to run your car in suggests you aren't too bothered about your new car. As gnasher has said the extra hour will only help improve the reliability long term of your nice new car. I wasn't being critical in my previous post but I think it will definitely be worth your while.

[charv94]

The fact you said you weren't sure if you were prepared to take an hour longer to run your car in suggests you aren't too bothered about your new car. As gnasher has said the extra hour will only help improve the reliability long term of your nice new car. I wasn't being critical in my previous post but I think it will definitely be worth your while.

I appreciate the help and do apologise if i was at all sharp in that post. I will decide on what i want to do in the coming days. i must admit i prefer the motorway idea of slowing and speeding up and changing gear as i go but i see how it might be best at the time but not for the longevity of the car and may be better to take the extra hour to do the journey on a and b road. I would like to clarify that i am really bothered about the wellbeing of my new car, i don't want it to become some sort of dog plagued with troubles hence posting and asking the question.

[mcmaddy]

I would go a and b roads and you might be surprised it's shorter than an hour once you start and it'll be much more fun on twisty roads than on a motorway 

[monkeyhanger]

You're not going to get much variety on a motorway unless you experience some serious congestion. If you value that one hour so much, you're more likely to just crack on and sit at 80 in 6th. How much are you going to vary your speed on a well flowing motorway? Drop to 40 and 4th gear on a road that is flowing at 70/80, briefly then speed up again? That'll annoy even the truckers and won't do as much to help your "variance" cause as a varied A and B road journey. Good piston ring seal and avoiding bore glaze is the aim here. 7 VW TDIs in a row and only 1 had any oil use between services, the one that spent the first 700 miles of its life on the motorway, using 2 litres of oil in its first 700 miles and a litre per 1000 miles thereafter.

[p3asa]

^^^ Thats how I drove back and because you are conscious you have to do it, its no problem. Just sit in the slow lane behind a lorry and and go up down the gears.

Going via A and B roads is no guarantee that you will vary the revs. More so some A roads. You are more likely to annoy those behind you changing speed on a single track road. At least with the motorway you can do your own thing and others have another 2 lanes to go past you

I suppose it depends when the OP is travelling. We went from Gillingham to Glasgow on a Saturday afternoon and it was reasonably quiet.

[charv94]

^^^ Thats how I drove back and because you are conscious you have to do it, its no problem. Just sit in the slow lane behind a lorry and and go up down the gears.

Going via A and B roads is no guarantee that you will vary the revs. More so some A roads. You are more likely to annoy those behind you changing speed on a single track road. At least with the motorway you can do your own thing and others have another 2 lanes to go past you

I suppose it depends when the OP is travelling. We went from Gillingham to Glasgow on a Saturday afternoon and it was reasonably quiet.

Im going from solihull, to Liphook in hampshire. So it would be m42, m40, m25 then a3 basically. Quite busy. Id be travelling mid week, but it would be in half term, the week before the easter weekend...Im not sure i think if i take the journey ill do the motorway, i can nearly guarantee the m25 will be slow traffic so that might break the journey up a bit? I don't know really. Id be picking the car in the morning then doing the journey at lunchtime.

[Vedubber]

Just get out there and give it thrashing. Who cares if you A or B roads!!

[dubber36]

Motorways do have junctions. You could always come off now and again, do a lap of the roundabout and get back on.