Great video sir! If I may... Invest 30 quid in a good microphone, it would make your videos much much better and easier to follow! By the way: I'm writing from Italy... Any of your trained technicians over here? Cheers and keep up the good work!
Appreciate your comments, I use a Insta 360 camera for these as I lack the time to really put into post production, the 360 allows me to just plonk it down, talk to the camera and upload. It's not perfect but if I add more time for things like audio I can see me never getting the time to do the videos at all I'm afraid. We are looking for international partners, Germany and Switzerland are first but looking for Italy too
Great video and very informative! Subscribed! With the huge and detrimental impact low oil pressure can have on these cars, it would seem reasonable to have some type of low oil level warning system built in. Regardless, I check my oil level on my 570S every 500 miles. Typically end up adding about 1/4 quart.
Hello John! I recently bought a 2015 650s coupe with less than 2k miles on it. The previous owner barely used it and the car is almost new. Before I bought it I drove it for a couple hours and I noticed some sort of weird hydraulic pump noise coming from the back of the car when coming to a stop. Now, I live here in Dominican Republic and we don't have a Mclaren dealership. The only choice we have is the Mercedes dealer which is the only authorized dealer by Mclaren to sell and service these cars down here in the DR. So I went down to the Mercedes dealer where they have a couple of technicians working on these cars, and I was told by the techs that the noise is quite normal on the 650s & 720s, and if I recall correctly, they mentioned that is something related to the aero system. But since you are THE EXPERT on Mclarens, I would appreciate your input on this particular situation, because to be quite honest, I don't really trust much their expertise on Mclarens because for me, they are simply Mercedes techs with some Mclaren training. I love your channel and the way you explain everything about these cars. Best regards, Levi Garcia
All machinery needs adequacy of design, construction, operation and maintenance. Screw up any one and it will bite you in the bum. The third and possibly the last one are down to the owner/operator. However, if there is no oil dipstick, I suggest that is a design fault.
Not sure we've done one, but its simple enough. Stone cold car, start it and immediately drive the car in 5th gear under 30mph for as long as possible. Thats it.
Thank you for this great video! What do you consider over revving? Have McLaren set the rev limiter to high so it is worthwhile turning it back a couple of 100 revs? (When going sideways it is quite nice to have a revlimiter to lean on)
@@drivingnirvana5164 a lot of car owners get forced induction cars wrong, FI generates power and torque lower in the rev range than NA so the trick is to change gear at peak torque not peak rpm. To get the best out of any McLaren change gear between 5-6k rpm, there is little point any higher as torque is increa at a decreasing rate.
@@johnthorne2920 Thank you, well now that answer would take us into a long discussion on rpm/hp/torque/gearing but that we can save for when I bought a 650s spider that I am shooting for and come to UK to let you look over it. 😎 But top power of the stock 650s are made between 6000 and 8000, since gearing is set up for that it will accelerate the quickest in that range and with about 2k rpm down per gear you stock want all the revs you can have. But I can also see that power curves of mapped engines tend to provide power curves that are close to peak already at 5300rpm together with a boat load of torque so then it makes sense to rev less. But we are talking about vehicles with the only purpose to create emotions and fun and revs is a big part of it. When you buy an exciting engine you want to use the full engine.😎 So what do you consider to be the limit of revs that are safe and can you accommodate tune to lower the revlimiter together with adjusted power curve? I know how it is especially on faster auto cross events etc, you sometimes lean on the revlimiter for 10m instead of making the up shift and then go right back again…..
There is one Canadian RU-vidr, it doesn’t seem to have any mechanical sympathy for any car really.whos modified 720 s is belching out a white smokescreen
