The 2020 Corvette Stingray may have only recently started rolling off the assembly line at General Motors‘ Bowling Green Assembly plant, but some lucky owners are already racking up the miles on their new mid-engine Chevys.
YouTuber TJ Hunt recently took delivery of his Ceramic Matrix Grey Metallic 2020 Corvette. Rather than taking a few beauty shots of the car and putting it back under a cover, TJ decided to immediately embark on a huge cross-country road trip in his new mid-engine sports car and is currently documenting the entire thing on his channel.
LT2 V8 in the 2020 Corvette C8 road car.
Having already made it through the first portion of the road trip, TJ’s 2020 Corvette has been clocking miles rather quickly, with the odometer already surpassing 500 miles. As many automakers suggest changing a new vehicle’s oil at the 500-mile mark, Hunt brought the car by Bachman Chevrolet in Kentucky this week for a quick service.
Bachman Chevrolet just so happens to be Mike Davenport’s place of work – a fellow car YouTuber who goes by Chevy Dude. Davenport documented the oil change on Hunt’s 2020 Corvette for his channel, giving fellow GM fans an inside look at one of the first-ever customer oil changes on the eighth-generation sports car.
Corvette fans will be happy to see the oil change process for the mid-engine Corvette isn’t much different than on a front-engine vehicle. The drain plug and oil filter are in fairly easy-to-access locations and the recommended oil filter is a common, inexpensive AC Delco unit. Once the oil change is complete, the technician or owner must then reset the oil life monitor in the vehicle using the Driver Information Center controls on the steering wheel.
According to Davenport, the recommended new vehicle break-in period for the 2020 Corvette is 1,500 miles. For the first 200 miles, Chevy recommends driving at moderate speed and avoiding hard cornering to break in the tires. For the first 500 miles, engine torque will be limited in low gears and the driver should not exceed 4,000 RPM.
You can see the oil change process for the 2020 Corvette in the video embedded below.
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I’m a bit disheartened to learn that TJ Hunt’s C8 is the first to have an engine light illuminating! But the way he’s been driving the car and the journey he’s been on I understand why…Plus I don’t think it’s a big deal….I hope it isn’t! The C8 is one of two things keeping close to GM right now; the other being their venture(s) into the electric vehicle segment.
The AC Delco PF64 is a common oil filter, used in other GM models. My three GM vehicles (1984 Old Ciera, 1995 Buick Regal, and 2009 Chevy Equinox) all use the same AC Delco PF47 oil filter, too. So oil changes are cheaper, and depends on labor rates (I am a DIY so I do it for free), and the quality of the oil (I use Mobil !). I have been changing oil and filter for all my cars since 1975 (1975 Chevy Vega Kammback Wagon) so it is easy to estimate how much money I have saved..
Might be difficult to do in the driveway on ramps? Looks like will be too close to ground?
I think you may be mistaken unless he said it somewhere I missed, but if you are going off the video there is not check engine light on that I see, the check engine light isn’t even in the main cluster. It is off to the right side in a separate pod. Just like the images seen in this link of the seatbelt light but it would be on the right side.
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2019/11/check-out-the-2020-corvette-stingray-digital-instrument-cluster-video/
Why change the oil at 500 miles? Recommended by Chevy? They have not used break-in oil for years!
Someone needs to ask the lead C8 Engineer this question.
It is not going to hurt.I always do the 1st oil change at about 500 miles and the 2nd at about 65% overkill maybe?
I thought all of the AcDelco oil filters have gone to the E core?
spend a couple bucks more and get better quality filters