So I followed the procedure to wait 5 min after driving then check the oil level. Does this seem ok to be at this level on the dipstick? I know the m96's deprive themselves of oil so I have been told to keep it more on the full side but is this too much in your experience? Love to hear your thoughts thanks!

2000 996 C2

 

I check my oil cold. Half way up the dipstick. Hasn't blown up yet. Btw, same year as your, 2000 w/60k. Carefree miles.

 

thanks.

 

It looks at full a far as I can tell. Your set to go! Now go burn some off.

 

Took a long lunch and did canyon laps in two different canyons, then felt bad to push her hard on a day it broke 80F in the city and took the truck back to work.

Put the ubiquitous Fabspeed CF intake on my 03 C2 this week and holy _hit it sounds primal. Not sure if it's more powerful now or I just am geeking out over the new dynamic of the car.

for OP - I'm a little over a month and 2.1k miles into ownership and have kept oil between the upper end of the narrow bar and the circular divot. Local Porsche dealership opted to fill to the circular divot mark fwiw when doing annual service and PostPI.

 

The owners manual for the 2000 911 says you can check the oil level when the engine is dead cold. It was also pointed out in a Porsche produced Hurley Haywood video introduction of the car. You can use the dip stick or the dash gauge.

 

Always check cold after it sits over night - I aim for the 4th from bottom on the digital gauge or dead center of the dipstick

If thats fully warm, you may need to go burn some off.

 

I would have thought that it should be up to the max line at the top especially with the starvation issues with oil pick up !!

 

I don't think that any brand of street driving can create oil pickup starvation issues.

Put another way: If oil starvation is an issue with your street driving, you drive like a GIANT ******* on the street.

 

The "dog bone" on the dip stick, assuming a cold engine, indicates "minimum" if the lower bulge is covered and "maximum" if the upper bulge is covered. The "minimum" level PLUS 1 quart will raise the level to the "maximum".

While the posted pic is a bit vague, I think the engine has been over filled by, say, .5 qt.; again, assuming a cold engine.

relinuca

 

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This is interesting. I always thought that the way to use this style dipstick was that the lower dot was just below minimum and the upper dot was just above maximum with the low area representing some unit of measure, usually 1 quart. The idea being that it is possible to get a false reading if the indicator picks up some oil on extraction so the goal was: bottom dot filled, upper dot empty, add as needed to approach, but not enter, upper dot; must add, or tow, if lower dot empty. I read his indicator as full, right to the brim but not overfilled.

 

Thanks for the kind words! Glad you are enjoying the intake as much as we do

 

Instructions needed to read a dipstick....Really?

 

Apparently so. Must be why they removed it...

I just checked the manual and it says between the minimum and maximum oil level on the dipstick and points to the two bands. It also says that the width between the two bands is about 1.33 quarts.

I always assumed (I know...) that the dots were high and low warnings. As long as bottom dot was full and top dot was empty you were okay. If I was adding, I would bring it to the top band which was full. The difference is that I would have not called it over-filled until it started to creep into the upper dot. I never add oil unless I'm down at least a half quart or starting a long trip and I never get that low between oil changes. Obsessing over oil levels is not my idea of "fun with cars".