Brought 5L Fuchs GT1 from OpieOils last week and my mate was OK to let me use his ramp in his man gave. Its a proper cave that he rent with his mate to store his project cars and use as a workshop.
There are about 4 Land Rovers in there, an old mustang somewhere in another unit nearby, a Ford Mexico and a Chevy pick up. And also lots of car bits laying around here and there.......Its the first I visited his cave and I'm really loving it there!!
Anyway back to the oil change, pretty straight forward really.
Here's my mate checking the jacking points making its on the correct location
Took the bottom plastic panel out, and found that its not in perfect condition....oh well, its nearly perfect as I think there is a bit broken off (picture below) and 2 plastic studs were missing. I'll do some research where to get them. I think I can get like 100pcs from Ebay or maybe
I'm thinking if I should get a new/used plastic panel or go for an aluminum (auto-correct suggested this and shows its an error when I type in aluminium, surely this is a UK site!!) cover
Oh well......got it up all the way to the top and removed the sump plug, drained everything out, removed the oil filter and then I lower my zed so that I can just flush my engine with about 1 ltr of Mobil Super 3000 5W-30. First few seconds the oil that comes out of the sump plug hole was black and soon turns golden which i suppose that had flushed most of the old oil out.
New oil filter in and fill it up as per guide -->http://www.350z-uk.c...r-change-guide/
Here's a snap after oil change
and 1 more snap before leaving the workshop (sorry, cant resist)
Car is now at around 78.6k and next oil change is planned after 5k or 1 year which every comes first. I'm only driving to work and back (less then 5 miles round trip) so annual mileage will be minimum but I do love my zed hence regular oil change is a must (£35 ish for oil and filter change is definitely worth it )
Overall took me around 40mins max. But definitely enjoyed my time working on the car.
My mate advised me to get some under seal paint, give my zed a quick clean and brush with a wired brush. Put them under seal on and its not costing a lot for a tin. Sounds like a good advise to me as I'm planning to keep my zed long term (with a hope to SC after 5yrs).
That's all the update I have today.
Thanks for reading