In keeping with the rising complexity of autos typically, the 2024 S640 Ford Mustang entails a barely extra difficult process for altering the oil. Landan Durham at Texas store Late Mannequin Restoration shot a video (above) about methods to swap the lifeblood of an engine, the key alteration being extra protection for the underbody aero panels. Unhooking the large rearward cowl that hides the oil pan requires eradicating 15 screws and 5 push-type plastic retainers of two sorts. So any DIY’ers who do not have already got them are going to need to get an upholstery removing equipment with the forked plastic bars to extract fasteners.
Issues get a bit finicky when it is time to exchange the panel. To make sure most secure and aerodynamic match, the massive rearward panel that covers the oil pan has a number of tabs at its vanguard that slide above the ahead panel, in between the ahead panel and car body. When Durham misses this step and has to take away fasteners once more to repair the position, he makes a prediction: “2025 mannequin 12 months can have a lure door for the oil, I am calling it now.”
Mustang house owners who change their very own oil have needed to take away aero panels for years, although, it is simply that the covers solely obscured the oil filter, not the pan. So far as we all know, the 2011 GT launched a panel that hid the filter, nevertheless it got here with an entry panel held on by a single seven-millimeter bolt. Ever since, the panels have gotten bigger, the bolts extra quite a few, and the entry panel went away.
As he runs by means of the process, Durham additionally talks concerning the engine tick Ford’s 5.0-liter Coyote is known for, and Ford going again to a metal panel and conventional bolt as an alternative of the previous composite panel and plastic plug. What Mustang house owners ought to get from that is that if you happen to’ve taken your automobile to an oil change store as an alternative of the seller, you would possibly need to keep away from doing that with the 2024 Mustang, at the least till these retailers get some follow in.
