Advice On Running In A New Yaris D-4d

[Mr Bee]

Well, the Yaris is getting closer......and should be here on 1st march on a new 08 plate.

Thing is, the dealer I'm going through ('cos he offered me a good price) is in Manchester, and I'm in West Yorkshire, so its a fair way when I go to collect it.

So I'm just curious about driving it (as it will be brand new) such a long distance to get home, is it best to go motorway, with a long constant speed, or use back roads which will keep the revs lower and also give varying engine speeds??

Generally, the drive home is quite long, so don't want to do the wrong thing running it in, and obviously I cant see what the handbook says until I get the car!!

Any info or recommendations are appreciated B)

[Demonic Angel]

Toyota recommend "careful" driving with soft braking for the first couple of hundred miles.

Basically don't rag the hell out of it and then slam your brakes on!

You should be fine on either motorway or back roads so long as you take it relatively easy and don't over-rev the car. I've had three brand new Toyotas with delivery mileage and all of them I've never had a problem with driving back from the dealership.

You'll be fine!

[Blue84]

I would say that if you took the motorway, try not to keep it at a dead constant speed in 5th gear - a week after getting mine I had to drive down to Folkestone, a 70 mile drive on the M25 and M20 and it didn't have that many miles on it at all. Everynow and then I would stay behind a lorry (or similar) longer than normal and drop it down into 4th gear so it revved at a different speed for a bit. Obviously you don't want to do it to the extreme, but it'll give the engine a chance to begin to loosen up a bit.

Enjoy the new purchase when you eventually get it :)

[T V O R]

My advice would be to stay off the motorway. You will be at a constant speed and not using the gears clutch or brakes etc. This would be fine when a car is fully run in, but a new car would benefit from a varied journey.

Going the back road route would enable you to go through the rev range, more use of the brakes so getting them bedded in, getting the tyres run in and generally getting use to the car at your pace. Also, less chance of stone chips from HGV’s.