Pay Attention to Your Oil Oil Checking Advice

Keeping on Eye on Your Oil

Harry Lloyd

Checking on your oil

Checking your oil is very important in keeping your car on the road. If you have bought a new car recently, you have a leg up on most other drivers. There are much more advanced systems of monitoring your oil life than ever before.

The more basic versions of these systems are simply based on your mileage, and as your car rolls over the corresponding mile marker the display would light up. There are some much more advanced systems that calculate the information gathered from various sensors on your car.

If you have an older used car, you will really need to just adhere to the recommended schedule. Your owner's manual will also have instructions on how to check your oil. If you don't have your owner's manual, you can find many of them posted online.

Some manuals recommend running your car before hand, and others say you should let it cool down, it all depends. You generally check the oil by pulling out the dipstick, wiping the oil off, then reinserting the dipstick, pulling it out again, and viewing how far the oil is on the end of the dipstick.

How often should I change it?

You know that changing your oil is a very important part of your car's regular maintenance, but do you know how often you should do it? It is very important to your car's safety.

It actually depends on what kind of car you have and how you drive your car on a regular basis. You can find the manufacturer's recommended oil interval in the maintenance chapter of the owner's manual of your car.

The driving conditions of your car are classified by normal and severe or special conditions. The vast majority of drivers fall under the normal category. The actual qualifications for what is considered severe driving is a bit fuzzy.

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