Need help reading dip stick for oil lol please
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Need help reading dip stick for oil lol please
I know I know....... I have had this car for about 3 months and ever 3 fillups i check oil did not need any started riding the car harder since I put exhaust in lol now the oil is low I think I'm just having hard time reading this stupid thing. It has a line then 3 dots then another line then small flat before hitting the round part of dip stick. My question is its below the top line its between the top dot and top line. Can anyone help me on this dont want to over fill my oil
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i believe the dots are so you can see about where your oil is easily, my 04's dipstick has only a bottom line and a top line, and its extremely difficult to see without a flashlight to see the reflectiveness.. so the top line is the top line, you should be fine bro
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Cool thanks....... So dont go above the line even though there is still little room until it hits the round part of the dip stick
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just DONT overfill it wayyyy too much. what happens when you do that is it gets whipped around and gets marshmellowy, and, yeah, go figure
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Hell, I never could read it with 5w20, but I can with a normal weight of 0w40.
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Oh excuse me, mea culpa, I know about running changes in Japanese cars, but I didn't know that some cars didn't have those three titty marks!
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This is actually getting funny and interesting...............I'll tell you why.
Early on(in early 06), I was poking around on the Finishline site and saw this dipstick(see link below).
Thinking it was "new" and I was ordering other stuff, I threw it in with my order.
Well, as it turns out, it's not like the pic at all and is exactly like ours is now, but maybe the difference was that it had the **** where my old one didn't?
I can't verify my old one as someone needed it and I sent it to them for free. Think it's in Arizona somewhere.![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Note the part number has a "D' revision...............this doesn't mean it started at "A", but maybe there was an older version?
http://www.finishlineperformance.com...2&cat=0&page=1
Early on(in early 06), I was poking around on the Finishline site and saw this dipstick(see link below).
Thinking it was "new" and I was ordering other stuff, I threw it in with my order.
Well, as it turns out, it's not like the pic at all and is exactly like ours is now, but maybe the difference was that it had the **** where my old one didn't?
I can't verify my old one as someone needed it and I sent it to them for free. Think it's in Arizona somewhere.
![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Note the part number has a "D' revision...............this doesn't mean it started at "A", but maybe there was an older version?
http://www.finishlineperformance.com...2&cat=0&page=1
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