In todays video I do some DIY maintenance on my 2014 R35 Nissan GT-R!
When I bought the car, I had the shop do an oil change just to make sure it was ready to go. I was a bit intimidated when I first bought the car to do it myself because everyone said it would be so much work on a car like this.
Changing the oil on my Nissan GT-R was actually easier to do than my Nissan 370Z! Only one under-tray had to come down, and that had less bolts than the under-tray that gets removed on the 370Z for the oil change.
Once that was off I simply removed the drain plug and oil filter to let it drain. Once it was drained I re-installed the oil pan drain plug and put in the new K&N oil filter. Filled it up with about 5.3 quarts of Mobile1 Full Synthetic 0w40 oil, and the GT-R was good to go!
I'm not sure how much Nissan will charge for parts and labor to do an oil change on the GT-R, but don't waste the time and money at the dealership for them to do it. This takes less than an hour and couldn't be more simple to do.
I'm sure the time it would take to drive to the dealer and back, you could have this done yourself and save a good $200 or so. And have the pride in working on your car yourself ;)
Now that I changed the oil in my Nissan GT-R, it is good to go! I went about 5,000 miles on this oil which is fine for full synthetic. A lot of time people recommend 10,000 mile intervals for synthetic oil. But I figured it couldn't hurt to go ahead and do this now.
Overall I spent about $75 on the oil and filter. So I think that is very cheap annual maintenance for the car. I actually did this video before I had my car out on the airstrip racing against the McLaren 650S. Because I was dong that, and will be taking the GT-R on the race track later this month. I wanted to go ahead and change it now. As it sits, I've done a drag racing event, a ton of launch control runs, and several 100 mph data log runs on this oil. So it had a little abuse under its belt and to get ready for the airstrip event and race track day, I wanted fresh oil before hand.
Here is a link to me racing my Nissan GT-R against an 800 WHP McLaren 650S if you missed that video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px3ibzYPltY&t=846s
With all that said. If you own a Nissan GT-R, do the oil change yourself. It is way too easy to not do the work yourself! :)
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