Gumbee

today i did an oil change on my 250 and put in bout 5.6 quarts of oil and it barely hits the dipstick... dealer says put in 5.2 what do yall think?

Gumbee

sorry i didnt see the noob section

BounceNY

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Check your manual, I believe its more like 6+ quarts.

tC_demon

Yeup my IS350 takes a little more than 6 quarts with filter...Just read the manual....the very last page should have all the specs.


Just checked my manual and its 6.6 quarts of oil with filter.

nabbun

isn't it 6.3 w/o filter and 6.7 with?

oh and your dealer has a bunch of dipsticks working for them

ISooNice

i put 6.7 so after startup with filter its right on the line. my friend works at lexus and he said everyone puts 6.5

Stokdgs

for AWD. I just changed the oil and filter on my IS350 , couple days ago and 6.6 qts did not hit the top mark of the 2 marks of the dipstick, so I ended up putting in the rest of the 7th quart and it came up closer to the top mark.
DanF

speedfoos

BWAHAHAHAHHA!! Now that's punny!

At the OP. Umm.....why don't you just fill the crankcase until the it reads full on the dipstick? Just a thought.

kickin8

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manual says 6.6 but I used all 7 quarts today.....

barely touched the notch @dipsick...

Flipsonic

Just got an oil change also but they put in 8 quarts. I checked the dipstick and it is over the two dots. Is there any negative effect to the car when this happens?

Joeb427

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I'd drain a over a quart.
Too much oil in the crank case can cause more oil than usual to be sprayed onto the cylinder walls making the oil rings work very hard to clean the excess oil away.
Another concern about overfilling the oil is foaming. The oil will foam and result in less protection for your engine.Maybe seal issues too.
I don't know if a 1.5 qt overfill would cause these problems but why take the chance?

Flipsonic

Ok thanks. I will drain the excess today. Luckily, it's only been a day of driving.

Joe Z

iTrader: (10)

So who did this "oil change" for you and why did they use 8qts??

Not only did you over pay for the 8th qt, but over filling the engine with Oil is just silly and potentially very harmful...

Joe Z

Flipsonic

Ok, took it back to the shop and they drained the excess oil but don't know how much. The dipstick show the oil level is still above the top dot by about 1/8 of an inch. The tech said this is ok. Is it? Is it really important that the level is not above the top dot?

jimnordon

Just ordered filters from sewell, they are listing 04152-yzza5 as correct filter. Other posts list -yzza3?, Is -yzza5 correct also?..... Thanks.