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Oil Percentage Indicator

Discussion in '3rd Gen. Tacomas (2016-2023)' started by dab86, Aug 19, 2018.

  1. Aug 19, 2018 at 9:49 PM
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    dab86

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    does this truck have an oil percent gauge that tells you when to change the oil? I cant find it anywhere if there is one.

    Thanx
     
  2. Aug 19, 2018 at 9:52 PM
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    no, pull dipstick out once a month and as it gets older every two weeks.
     
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  3. Aug 19, 2018 at 9:54 PM
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    No, every 10,000 miles is your Oil Change Interval
     
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  4. Aug 20, 2018 at 7:04 AM
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    LOL, 10,000k oil change. Only a fool wowou follow those recommendations.
     
  5. Aug 20, 2018 at 7:10 AM
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    Just change it every 10k or once a year like Toyota recommends. Do whichever comes first.
     
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  6. Aug 20, 2018 at 7:11 AM
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    Yup.

    All aboard the "if you don't change it every 3 hours your engine will implode causing a black hole ending the universe as we know it" train!
     
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    So you only change your oil when you have 0% left? Lol

    Change w full synthetic every 10,000 miles.
     
  8. Aug 20, 2018 at 7:18 AM
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    This thread is already fucked, I'm going to add more to it.
    Ridgeline has an oil life indicator as well as a transmission dipstick.
     
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  9. Aug 20, 2018 at 7:19 AM
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    Amazing. I can just picture the people frothing at the mouth with anger due to that!
     
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  10. Aug 20, 2018 at 7:19 AM
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    You can set a reminder if you don’t like the 10k intervals. It’s in your apps and you can set reminders for other maintenance, it’s a pretty neat feature (I don’t personally use). Every time you reach a 1, 2, 3, etc in the front of your odometer reading just remember it’s time for some fresh oil!
     
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  11. Aug 20, 2018 at 7:32 AM
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    Triggered!
     
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    For the OP, the recommendations are for every 10,000 miles. You will have a maintenance indicator light every 5000 miles that will come in around 500 miles early. I think it lights up based on when you reset it.

    You can check one of the links in my signature to see what I've found in testing the oil after a few 10,000 mile oil change intervals.
     
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  13. Aug 20, 2018 at 7:38 AM
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    $10 says someone that drives a Ridgeline doesn't know what a transmission dipstick is.
     
  14. Aug 20, 2018 at 7:45 AM
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    I've had cars that didn't even come with oil dipsticks.
     
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    o_O

    Seriously? Name some.
     
  16. Aug 20, 2018 at 7:49 AM
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    So that's over a decade ago that these cars came with no oil dipstick. You can check the oil level via on board computer.
     
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  17. Aug 20, 2018 at 7:50 AM
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    Well I'll be damned. I wondered if it wasn't a European thing.

    Learn something new every day!
     
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    Those crazy Germans.

    Ich bin gross misthaufen.
     
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    Really. I would be happy to debate you on that issue.
     
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