Oil

How often do you check your engine oil? Is the dip stick accurate?

 

Once a week, or every other week. Whenever I wash my truck, I pop the hood and give everything a wipe down and check the fluids while I'm there.

I'd say the dipstick is accurate. (Although everyone complains it's difficult to read) No issues here.

 

Friday was 2 days ago.

 

Every month I check fluids, tires, etc.
Yes, dipstick is accurate.

 

The dipstick is not accurate. It's a known problem, but the dealer will deny it. The only accurate way to know is to install a catch can and measure how much is collected by it, subtract from the amount that you added at the last 2500 mile oil change interval, and then remember what it says on the backside of the instructions - take one kadam back to honor the Hebrew God whose truck this is.

 

i check it about once a week. i have no issues with the dipstick and it seems accurate. i drain the oil, refill with 6 quarts, and it reads full or close enough.

 

I had an 18 and now a 20.
Both read just like the many cars I've owned...
Park level, pull dipstick, wipe, insert, remove, read. It's always within and 1/8" of full throughout the 5k miles...

Not sure what people mean by not accurate.

 

I've been wrenching on cars for over 50 years and I have never once seen a factory stock engine with an unmodified dipstick read incorrectly. What is the basis of your claim?

 

I installed a remote reading dipstick that sends an automatic signal to my iPhone every 5 seconds so I can continually monitor my oil level while driving. You know, for that peace of mind thing. It also does real-time oil specto-analysis of my oil and let's me know if I have excessive metallic wear product build up. It also has a bi-metalic heating element to keep my shut down oil temperature at a perfect 92.7 degrees to prevent excessive condensation from forming inside the engine.

Kind of expensive and not for everyone, but it works for me. Follow me for more exciting and fictitious Tacoma oil monitoring devices.

 

I hardly ever check my dipstick. Maybe once in a blue moon. The engine is tight. And I don't mean seized.

 

Whenever there's an oil thread.

 

I just wait until the oil light comes on, that’s how Toyota designed it.

 

Fuck man, I just checked and I don't have anything listed Oil under the hood of my truck. I only have a 710 cap!

 

Let me guess, you got this miracle device from Amazon and it cost "a buck-three-fifty".

 

So i was asking because the dealership changed my oil last. When i check my stick it was excessive. I already pulled about about 700cc of oil and it is still past the second dot. This is not friday its sunday people

 

I check my oil after every trip, sometimes I’ll check it mid-trip. I will not allow my truck to be low on oil.

 

I check mine only if the engine light comes on saying low oil....otherwise all is good. As far as dipsticks, i know a few.

 

I check it every time I open the hood.