Thread: Oil guage lies?
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Old 03-21-2009, 03:59 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by chitowndad
Hmmm... so if that's true and the guage says over the max I'm ok???

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-Steve
Not necessarily, see by eliminating the overfill indicator, you have no way of knowing if you're overfilled or not, and because of this, I personally feel it's better to keep the digi-gauge at 1 bar below and the dipstick slightly over the max line as I'd said. Trust the dipstick over than the dash gauge - use the digi-gauge only for convenience at startup.

For those w/o dipsticks, 1 bar (about 8 fl. oz.) below the top is still in the OK range, and OK is OK - better than risking an overfill.
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