Yep, how fast the past year has gone, drove it home exactly 1 year ago today, just love my 911. Well today was celebrated with a short drive and then her first oil change. Still up on ramps as my new filter and 0-ring are still out for delivery today, UPS must be running a little behind today,No worries just letting it drain and taking a break So surprised how easy this has been, I guess I shouldn’t speak until I put it all back together, lol.

So from what I read here I should put 8 quarts in, take it off the ramps and check oil level again right?
Also a couple guys on her said torque the filter cap to 26NM, the cap has 25NM on it, I know it’s just a pound so assume I should torque to 25.

thanks, will update later.

Mine is MY 2017, was told 2018 for free oil change. Either way I did it primarily to prevent issues like scuffs etc, worth it not to have anyone touch it but me. I would not have taken it in regardless if it was free, paint correction cost more that $90 for oil and filter kit.

mileage is 2,378.

Gotta love a tight Socal garage! I get two cars in mine as well. Hope you have those bikes bungied and secured- more and more earthquake activity on our side of the world has me a bit nervous!

lol, my wife would not like to have any marks on her M4, so I have everything strapped down, even have custom netting installed on the shelves and locks on all cabinet doors, I have lived in SoCa my entire life, way too familiar with earthquake damage.

And yes damn tight garage, so wish I had a 3 car garage.

Just buttoned everything back up, I put in 8 quarts of Mobil 1 0-40. I also measured what was drained, 9 quarts and 10-15oz, need to measure to be exact.

gonna have a cold one before I fire her up and back off the ramps.

all went smooth, was surprised that the drain plug just sort of turns and locks in place, you can’t over torque it, oh well if Porsche is happy with it so am I.

my wife said are you sure everything good to go? I told her of course, but the worst case is and I toast a $40k motor when I fire her up, okay yeah, not funny.

oh no you had to go there, lol.

I used a 9”extension, no other way to get in there with a torque wrench, I did however take a photo of the orientation of the filter cap before I started, there is also some raised text on the cap, you can use for a timing reference, the before and after are almost identical, the after is just slightly more clockwise, perhaps a degree or two. I have a CDI NM torque wrench (Snap-on), it’s very accurate per the cert, and it’s brand new. I went to 25NM as specified by Porsche.

edit, just looked it up, the extensions do not change the torque setting.

thanks for your post on oil changes, it was that post that motivated me to do it, it helped a lot.


So for others thinking about it, just do it, pretty easy. I did have to buy race ramps, metric torque wrench, and some other small things but I am still $150 ahead of the $450 charged at the dealer and i didn’t have to worry about issues at the dealer. Going forward oil changes will cost me about $80.00 plus I needed a metric torque wrench and the race ramp anyway.

So I used 3” ramps on the rear only, drained for about 2 hours. I initially put in 8 quarts, (rather add more than take it out). After start up I took a measurement after what seemed like forever, I was just above the minimum measurement, message said add 1.3 quarts. So I added one more quart (9 total), now I am little under the top max, measurement so I still need a little more.

I then measured what came out, its 9 quarts and about 10-15 ozs, going to measure exactly tomorrow. So it looks like the exact amount needs to go in that came out. This will help a lot next time, just did not want to overfill this time.

So what’s the purpose of sending your oil out for analysis?? What’s the cost, turn around, and how much do they need?

Thanks for all the advice.