Engine Oil level
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Make sure to measure at a leveled surface, it is ideal if the oil level is closer to max but not above it. The operator's manual does say recommended level is between min and max.
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Thats perfect. If you add to much it will complain. On my wife's car if I get the oil level almost at max and she drives over rougher streets it will alert her that the oil level is too high.
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I agree, right in between give or take is the sweet spot. I had it filled to the max line at one change, whenever it was going up hill, bumped around, or at higher altitude the pain in the *** warning would pop up. I didn't think altitude affected oil volume but I suppose the air in the closed system did something.
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Amazing how a car manufacturer was able to change a metal stick with two score marks labeled "ADD" and "FULL" into a color computer graphic whose interpretation is completely non-intuitive and ambiguous. I wonder why the speedometer isn't a horizontal bar graph labeled "SLOW" and "FAST".
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Amazing how a car manufacturer was able to change a metal stick with two score marks labeled "ADD" and "FULL" into a color computer graphic whose interpretation is completely non-intuitive and ambiguous. I wonder why the speedometer isn't a horizontal bar graph labeled "SLOW" and "FAST".
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Get a dipstick
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My '19 G550 lacks both a dipstick and tube, and after last changing the oil and resetting the service interval, the oil level graphic is no longer available (someone said this is a known bug). The oil measurement in the Workshop menu however is still present.
My X7 still has a dipstick, although it is disguised, lacking the expected yellow pull ring. But the tip of the dipstick is not the long trusted and easy to read flat metal blade. Rather it's a goofy looking red tooled knob on which fresh oil is invisible. What does it mean when car manufacturers employ design engineers assigned to fix things that aren't broken, and break things so they no longer work?
My X7 still has a dipstick, although it is disguised, lacking the expected yellow pull ring. But the tip of the dipstick is not the long trusted and easy to read flat metal blade. Rather it's a goofy looking red tooled knob on which fresh oil is invisible. What does it mean when car manufacturers employ design engineers assigned to fix things that aren't broken, and break things so they no longer work?
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My '19 G550 lacks both a dipstick and tube, and after last changing the oil and resetting the service interval, the oil level graphic is no longer available (someone said this is a known bug). The oil measurement in the Workshop menu however is still present.
My X7 still has a dipstick, although it is disguised, lacking the expected yellow pull ring. But the tip of the dipstick is not the long trusted and easy to read flat metal blade. Rather it's a goofy looking red tooled knob on which fresh oil is invisible. What does it mean when car manufacturers employ design engineers assigned to fix things that aren't broken, and break things so they no longer work?
My X7 still has a dipstick, although it is disguised, lacking the expected yellow pull ring. But the tip of the dipstick is not the long trusted and easy to read flat metal blade. Rather it's a goofy looking red tooled knob on which fresh oil is invisible. What does it mean when car manufacturers employ design engineers assigned to fix things that aren't broken, and break things so they no longer work?
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