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Originally Posted by speeder View Post
I wouldn't change the oil for nothing. Just drive the snot out of it and get it cooking. Nothing happened to your brand new oil sitting in the sump for a year. I'm a maintenance freak but the idea that oil goes bad sitting in an engine is BS, unless it's 50 years or something. IMO, of course.
I agree, but with a caveat. This is only really true on air-cooled cars. On water-cooled cars, (particularly the 996 and Boxster), the coolant slowly seeps into the oil it the car sits for a long time. So, the oil gets contaminated just doing nothing.

But the air-cooled cars don't really deteriorate...

-Wayne
Old 03-15-2019, 03:19 PM
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