Are you supposed to do an oil change when you buy a new car?

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Lawndart
In short, yes. Or your car will forever be slightly less powerful than it could be.

Its a strange "GT'isum", never really explained or logical.
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It was explained about ten or so years ago. It was initially an accident and it sticked around because of popularity.
 
I lost over 30hp in a R34 doing speed runs, i think the engine wore quicker due to a few over-revs and the use of N2O...
 
If it's a fairly expensive car I'll usually change the oil. For cheaper ones that i probably won't drive a whole lot I usually don't bother.

I read somewhere that if you drive the car before changing the oil, then the performance gain you would have gotten is forever lost. For instance if you buy a 500 hp car and change the oil, you get 505 hp (or whatever, I have no idea). However if you buy it and drive it without changing the oil, you'll forever be limited to 500 hp even if you change the oil later. I don't know if that's correct or not, but I figure what the heck.
 
JackC8
If it's a fairly expensive car I'll usually change the oil. For cheaper ones that i probably won't drive a whole lot I usually don't bother.

I read somewhere that if you drive the car before changing the oil, then the performance gain you would have gotten is forever lost. For instance if you buy a 500 hp car and change the oil, you get 505 hp (or whatever, I have no idea). However if you buy it and drive it without changing the oil, you'll forever be limited to 500 hp even if you change the oil later. I don't know if that's correct or not, but I figure what the heck.
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well that is certainly interesting. can anybody confirm this?
 
JackC8
If it's a fairly expensive car I'll usually change the oil. For cheaper ones that i probably won't drive a whole lot I usually don't bother.

I read somewhere that if you drive the car before changing the oil, then the performance gain you would have gotten is forever lost. For instance if you buy a 500 hp car and change the oil, you get 505 hp (or whatever, I have no idea). However if you buy it and drive it without changing the oil, you'll forever be limited to 500 hp even if you change the oil later. I don't know if that's correct or not, but I figure what the heck.
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Nope. Not true. I drove #24 NASCAR car for over 1800 miles before doing an oil change. It went from 849 HP to 892 HP which is the same max hp from GT5.
 
It's actually more beneficial to do an overhaul rather than an oil change when you buy a car. You get the same HP/TQ figures either way but for some reason the overhaul will give you much better acceleration.

PD logic at it's finest...
 

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