oil?

[Deutschlandish1]

how do i change the oil in my car mid-tournament?

 

[Der Alta]

how do i change the oil in my car mid-tournament?

You can't. Don't worry, you'll not blow the engine or cause damage to it. IF it was a brand new car (Won or bought), you'll have peak HP for a while then it'll drop a bit. It'll remain in that range (new oil => used oil) for the remainder of the miles you'll drive it.

 

[Deutschlandish1]

ok thanx, the car just feels sluggish when the oil hasnt been changed in a while

 

[daan]

At least PD are getting folk used to the fact that they do need to change their oil every now and then, but to force us to drive a car with the oil light on is crazy.

I always thought that if your oil light came on, it was too late, and you had damaged your engine.

 

[TMM]

At least PD are getting folk used to the fact that they do need to change their oil every now and then, but to force us to drive a car with the oil light on is crazy.

I always thought that if your oil light came on, it was too late, and you had damaged your engine.

Doesn't the oil light just mean low oil? I drove a battered Ford Escort for a year with the oil light on. Every 2 weeks I would put oil in the engine to the max and then it would drop to the min level, but it never blew up. I even stuffed a cloth round the bottom of the spark plug to try and slow the oil leak but basically I didn't care about the car. I was saving for a brand new Astra...

 

[Parnelli Bone]

Doesn't the oil light just mean low oil? I drove a battered Ford Escort for a year with the oil light on. Every 2 weeks I would put oil in the engine to the max and then it would drop to the min level, but it never blew up. I even stuffed a cloth round the bottom of the spark plug to try and slow the oil leak but basically I didn't care about the car. I was saving for a brand new Astra...

Yeah, in real-life, the oil lite means low oil (at least a quart low. For you guys it's probably a liter). In PD, the lite means your engine is no longer running at peak performance and you'll need to have it serviced. It's at least a STEP towards realism, but still falls far short of anything you'd experience in a real-life race car!

Deutchlandish, your car doesn't just feel sluggish, it IS sluggish when that lite goes on. But the power hits a bottom limit at some point and won't go any lower.

 

[Uncle Harry]

In real life the oil warning light indicates low oil pressure.
The cars manual will tell you to check oil level and fill if oil is low, it also says if the light stays on after filling, get it checked.
Low oil is only one problem it senses. It also could be an indication of a broken oil pump, loss of compression, faulty pressure switch and a lot more things.
It is not a low oil level sensor, the light can be on even if oil is the correct level, something else is then causing the low pressure warning.

 

[supert10]

In a race car if your oil pressure goes low it is a very bad sign.
generaly it means your race is over and your engine may be toast.
In the GT games it is just a way to handicap you a bit.
If you changed the oil in the car when you first bought it and
got the hp boost from that, then that is all you lost. I never used
the oil change hp boost and I still won all the races. It just made
the races closer and more interesting.

 

[Parnelli Bone]

In a race car if your oil pressure goes low it is a very bad sign.
generaly it means your race is over and your engine may be toast.
In the GT games it is just a way to handicap you a bit.
If you changed the oil in the car when you first bought it and
got the hp boost from that, then that is all you lost. I never used
the oil change hp boost and I still won all the races. It just made
the races closer and more interesting.

I'm such a car nut...I never do the oil change after I first buy a car...I always let the engine break in. Then when it gets somewhere between 180 and 200 miles I'll get my car serviced.