Oil Changes

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How often do you change your oil?

  • After every race

    Votes: 4 9.8%
  • After every series

    Votes: 20 48.8%
  • Whenever I can think of it

    Votes: 17 41.5%
  • You can change your oil? (If you select this you are screwed)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    41
I think the years of driving mechanically precarious cars in my late teens/early twenties has made me extremely touchy whenever that light comes on in the Enduros.
 
Originally posted by BrianCNorton
I do it when the light comes on.
or before an endurance/long series
I do the same as well
 
Before and after all Endurance races, and every 5 or 6 races otherwise.
 
I don't like to forget, so I do it quite often. After all, money is no object if you keep getting tose first-place purses :p


For those that don't know already, wear is accelerated by a factor of 16; since most RL cars recommend oil changes every 3,000 miles, it's ( 3000 / 16 ) or 187.5 miles in GT3
 
Depends on the car. In cars I can re-purchase I change it every so often. In cars that I love, I change after every time I take it out on the track.
 
Well....all of the options are "After" this or that. I change my oil, "Before" every race. I have enough to keep track of without having to remember when I last changed my oil. :D
 
when i raced the 2 hour rome enderance my oil was like solid brown. it was yucko! then i cjanged it and i felt better. nice and bright green again. :)
 
Originally posted by Stealth Viper
Does pitting change your oil?

That would be cool though!
 
Yeah, that might be a nice idea. I think the pit idea could be expanded. A pit crew would be nice. It feels sorta silly getting lifted on the ground like a hovervraft.
 
I check my most used cars regulary and change it when it starting to get a brownish colour..or earlier!
 
ummm.......I don't think in real life races they have the time to change your oil and tires. At least that's what I think.
 
it would be nice if you had some choice over what tyres they put on during a pit stop - to vary your pit strategy or just if you fancy putting softs on for a few 'quicks'
 
Originally posted by ELecTriC
I check my most used cars regulary and change it when it starting to get a brownish colour..or earlier!



You actually let your oil turn to a brownish color before you change it? Thats like almost as bas as it can get. If my oil even STARTS to get a dark green I change it. Dang, only time I EVER had brown oil was after a 2 hour endurance.
 
Originally posted by Stealth Viper
Yeah, that might be a nice idea. I think the pit idea could be expanded. A pit crew would be nice. It feels sorta silly getting lifted on the ground like a hovervraft.

What i found to be totally inaccurate was that at Laguna Seca the car pits in the actual pit lane, not in a pit box! The pit boxes are most towards the left!
 
Thats a good point Zero. Also I dont like how your car just all of the sudden "floats" in mid-air. How um.......dumb. :(
 
I've become extremely attached to my 42 car garage, and as the conscientious owner I try to remember a quick change after i've had any of them out for a spin.
 
Don't forget to change it after modding your car, for those extra bhp it rewards you with.
 
Even in real races they don't change your oil in the pits, cause it takes to long. But you should definately be able to change it in between races of a series, whoever didn't think of that when making the game is just stupid.
 
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