Oil Change: Check New Oil Level

Video Transcript

"Okay, so I've added about four quarts of oil to this vehicle and, as I said before, you want to make sure that you're monitoring how much oil you've got in your car, so let's go ahead and wipe that dipstick off, and check it as we go here. So, I'm seeing on here, and as you're checking the oil, a tip that you might find helpful is, so there's liquid on this stick obviously, which is the oil, if you tilt it a little bit, you can see it a little easier in the light to determine where the actual level ends. This one, right now, is at the very end of the "add" line, right before the "safe". So I'm going to go ahead and add the rest of the oil we have which is about five quarts that we were expecting that it was going to need. So, same thing as before, just get that oil running over the top, and once we're done with this, put the oil cap on, and we're all set with that. And last thing is to, just make sure everything is tight."