oil level reading - simple logic

Are we discussing cars or condoms?

 

Agreed, but can't say how long it's been since I've seen anyone else
raise the hood.

 

I suspect this whole silly thread came about because I pointed out in
another thread that the proper way to check your oil is after it's been
sitting overnight.

The goal for the typical automobile consumer is consistency. The best
way to do that, for most, is to follow these simple steps:

1.) Check my oil parked in the same place. A change in level pretty
much invalidates a reading.

2.) Check it after it's been sitting overnight.
a.) The year round temperature of the oil is going to be within a
sensible range for most folks - not necessarily me when I lived in
Fargo, but for most folks.
b.) In most settings, the ambient temperature difference from
season to season will be less than the temperature difference of the oil
at different stages of operation.
c.) The temperature of the oil is considerably less important if
the same amount/percentage has drained into the oilpan.

I don't drive an over-the-road truck or a fleet vehicle, and neither
does the average driver. For most people, that's the way to get the
most consistent readings. In my case, albeit not for most people, that
same driveway (mine) is where I first read it after I change it as well.

Say whatever you like, JB. I don't think you should characterize
yourself as a usenet bully, though. You're more of an ineffectual
blowhard troll. No big deal.


RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen

 

Once again you put me in the unenviable position of agreeing with beam.
For that alone, you deserve to roast.

In point of fact, keeping track of the amount of oil you have added from
point a to point b, whether those points are distance or time, gives you
the total oil consumption for that period.

That doesn't change whether you check the dipstick level once or a 100
times.

Grow up or shut up, kid. Or at least try thinking before you type.


RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen

 

you /should/ be parking it on level ground to take the reading.

which is precisely what it /doesn't/ say to do in your honda manual.
have you read it? but who cares - honda engineers don't know their
business and the dip stick is not calibrated for use the way they merely
/say/ it is.

thermal expansion on oil can be considerable. seasonal variance can be
quite a change on the stick.

the oil in the pan is of very uniform temperature.

which is why it's calibrated to done at a time when that reading can be
made consistently - i.e. without temperature variance, without being
hostage to the vagaries of oil filter [and drain-back valve] quality,
and in a nice consistenly level location. like the gas pump forecourt.

but apparently not in this case...