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Well I don't mean it as dumb as it sounds. I see where the diptstick is and I can pull it out and read it...sort of.
It's just that the dipstick has this little orange plastic thing on it and it seems designed to catch the oil--maybe they thought they needed it for 0-20.
But it's really hard to tell what the actual oil level is because the oil pools inside the raised lip of the elongated orange plastic thing and once it pools it flows so it's hard to get a sense as to where the exact oil level is.
Personally, it seems to me that the old style dipstick with cross-hatched markings to help hold the fluid are much easier to read. I'm not sure I can read this one.
By this I mean I can't read it to any precision. It is clear that my car has enough oil. But we're in a situation where we have to be monitoring whether the oil level is *increasing* not decreasing, and I think our main concern is the potential for gasoline build up in the oil. This means we have to know the difference between full and full-and-getting-even-more-full.
I'm not confident I can accurately monitor the oil level with this dipstick...this is for the 2019 Accord, I hope y'all know what I'm talking about.
Greg N
It's just that the dipstick has this little orange plastic thing on it and it seems designed to catch the oil--maybe they thought they needed it for 0-20.
But it's really hard to tell what the actual oil level is because the oil pools inside the raised lip of the elongated orange plastic thing and once it pools it flows so it's hard to get a sense as to where the exact oil level is.
Personally, it seems to me that the old style dipstick with cross-hatched markings to help hold the fluid are much easier to read. I'm not sure I can read this one.
By this I mean I can't read it to any precision. It is clear that my car has enough oil. But we're in a situation where we have to be monitoring whether the oil level is *increasing* not decreasing, and I think our main concern is the potential for gasoline build up in the oil. This means we have to know the difference between full and full-and-getting-even-more-full.
I'm not confident I can accurately monitor the oil level with this dipstick...this is for the 2019 Accord, I hope y'all know what I'm talking about.
Greg N