New Car: What are the first things you do

[24lemons]

Box of kleenex on parcel shelf

Fresh tin of travel sweets

National Trust lifetime membership sticker in window

Make tracks for the nearest stately home with a tea shop (at no more than 40mph)

[anonymous-user]

Utter slightly second rate witticism to Q. Snog hot but inevitably doomed bird. Press missile launcher button.

[addz86]

Put foot down, giggle.

Apart from when I bought a Lotus, collect car, immediately take it to the Lotus dealer to be fixed

[anonymous-user]

This

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yil9wlfa0yo

[Blanchimont]

Generally:

Fill with fuel
Check tyres pressures, top up as necessary.
Clean off any black shiny stuff crap inside.
Drive until filthy.
Locate any squeaks and rattles.
Change tyres if really bad budgets, or different brands cross-axle. If not, I don't bother.
Clean, thoroughly.

[Soupie69uk]

Surprised no one has mentioned fitting a pistonheads sticker.

I generally drive to find any faults I may not have noticed on a test drive then give it a good clean.

Use for a few weeks and then get it up on the ramp and look for anything which I need to sort.

Then start buying parts for anything I wish to change over the next while and once happy enough either leave it or sell.

[y2blade]

Max it out

[anonymous-user]

I only ever buy cars from the 60s, 70s and 80s. So the true answer is always "call the AA".

[Coatesy351]

See if it will do a burnout

[GroundEffect]

Quick drive on my favourite roads to get a feel for it.

Then a proper wash - I find this is the best way to 'get to know the car'. Sad bd.

I used to try and max them out too but given my car is in the '>400BHP' range now, that's rather silly.

[Matt Harper]

Tint

[TWPC]

1. Apply purple or matt black wrap.
2. Ship to London.
3. Repeatedly drive past Harrods in a slow and noisy manner.
4. Avoid awkward questions about how many track days attended while denying I really enjoy the attention.

[Ste1987]

With my Celica the first think I did upon getting it home was replace the stereo and bought some custom mats

[Podie]

A good clean and book it in for a service.

[anonymous-user]

Get naked.

[zedstar]

Very first thing I always do after buying a new car is sort the keys out, add new key to the correct keyring and put spare key into the spare key drawer.

[DS197]

TWPC said:

1. Apply purple or matt black wrap.
2. Ship to London.
3. Repeatedly drive past Harrods in a slow and noisy manner.
4. Avoid awkward questions about how many track days attended while denying I really enjoy the attention.

[ecs0set]

Within 500 yards of driving it away, immediately align all air vents correctly and set the heater controls. This also applies to courtesy cars & hire cars. Sometimes even friends cars while they are filling it with petrol.

I know I'm not the only one. Pistonheads - OCD matters!

[itcaptainslow]

The recently purchased ZT followed my typical order of events;

-Full service (even if it's been done recently-I like to start afresh and make sure everything has been done to one's exacting standards) with a thorough mechanical inspection, fixing any issues discovered
-Detail-can't stand swirly paint or untidy, dirty interiors!
-A fresh set of tyres if they're of mixed, crap brands/unevenly worn/generally shagged
-A geo setup, this seems to always need doing no matter what car it is!
-Gradually discover more and more irritating rattles/quirks that now you've noticed, you'll never stop noticing which will drive you bloody bananas
-Sell it

Fortunately the latter two haven't been reached, yet...

[m444ttb]

Unless the car clearly needs something (cleaning, new tyres, etc) then i just get it booked in for a major service at somewhere i trust.