How often do you check your oil?

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• ray80 Member Posts: 1,655

  January 2015

  Monthly

  While I picked a number in the poll in reality I tend to check based on experiance with any particular vehicle . New vicgilce gets checked fairly often until I feel comfortable it is ok. As they age I check more often when they may start to have an appetite for oil.

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• stever Guest Posts: 52,454

  January 2015

  Every couple of weeks

  The other question I didn't include is:
  
  Do you check your oil "hot" (but after it's drained back into the pan for 5 or 10 minutes) or "cold", after the car has sat all night?
  
  I generally check mine hot while pumping gas (with a short ~5 minute drain time).

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• Mr_Shiftright Member Posts: 64,481

  January 2015

  Monthly

  Depends on which car--- the newer one, monthly. The old guy, weekly.

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• ray80 Member Posts: 1,655

  January 2015

  Monthly

  stever said:

  The other question I didn't include is:
  
  Do you check your oil "hot" (but after it's drained back into the pan for 5 or 10 minutes) or "cold", after the car has sat all night?
  
  I generally check mine hot while pumping gas (with a short ~5 minute drain time).

  I tend to check stone cold, if I do check when hot it is also after 5 mins after shutoff.
  
  The other option for poll I could think of is one maybe better not asked:
  
  'I assume the Oil Life Monitor (perhaps incorrctly) will tell me when I need to add oil'
  
  

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• stever Guest Posts: 52,454

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  Every couple of weeks

  heh, that would be good. The "automatic" dipstick in the Jaguar F-Type R long term road test was the impetus for this poll.
  
  
  

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• isellhondas Member Posts: 20,342

  January 2015

  With our Hondas, rarely. Less often than I should.
  
  We have never owned a Honda that needed oil between changes so I've become lazy.
  
  Still when I do check them they are always full.
  
  On our 149,000 mile BMW, every month or so. It's always full too.

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