Mister_Yogi

RL Family,

I currently have 1400 miles on my 991.2 TTS. When have you guys gotten your first oil change?

I know there is a train of thought to get it done early on. Is that widely agreed upon on this forum?

I'm sure there are several threads out there, but I ran a couple of searches "first oil change", "early oil change", etc. and didn't find any relevant hits on the first 3-4 pages.

Thanks in advance.

Steve Cole

Go maybe 300-500 miles, vary throttle and revs slightly often. DON'T drone down the highway at steady engine speed. DO give it some hard throttle when the engine is fully warmed up. You don't have to rev it hard, but you should give it some high boost to seal up those rings. Then, change oil and filter.

My opinion, and it's worth what you paid for it. I have built and run-in many engines harder than this (my race motorcycles usually get full throttle a dozen times in a sequence for breakin) with nothing but success, however YOUR MILAGE MAY VARY as the saying goes.

GrandLaker

One year mark change the oil. No need to do it sooner unless you're tracking the car.

Mister_Yogi

Thanks for the input! Sounds like I'm overdue by about 1k miles though!

Mister_Yogi

So time duration regardless of miles?

TTSPete

Agree, my guy who's worked on Porsches for 40 years said 5k or one year which ever is first. He told me they put break-in oil and should not change it, I have 3800 miles coming up on first change.

Same advice given from my sa

Steve Cole

I'd lay a crisp $100 bill on a bet that the oil supplied in the car is the same oil they recommend replacing it with.

TTSPete

Me too but I like to think its special

stealthpilot

I've done some oil analysis in the past and concluded it makes sense to change the oil at about 3000-4000 miles.

BMW M suggests an oil change at 1200 miles but the analysis suggests this is wasteful and has no benefit. Jaguar suggests 2000 miles but the analysis of my F-Types oil also showed that this was also too early.

I have found 3000-4000 miles is a better time for first oil change.

BTW even this is a beneficial early oil change. However the lab analysis does show that really you don't need it till about 5k miles plus. However at 4000 miles you contaminants start to be similar to a normal cycle because of the break in wear.

js9527

From what i was told by my tuner/dealer,
You should be fine. If you were babying the car, its time to give it few hard accel and don't brake to slow down, let the engine slow down by itself. You don't have to do oil change, but its always good after brake in.