Exhausts and Engine » Oil Change - overfilled. Oops.

Although I've carried out many oil changes in my time, this one just caught me out with the oil level rising to fill the whole sight glass. Ho-Hum!

I'd run the engine for a couple of minutes as usual to fully circulate the new oil. Shall I leave it and see if it "settles down"?

Slept on it - but decided I didn't want to set off tomorrow for a few days and a few hundred miles with it overfilled, so for the first time ever I removed the sump plug and drained some of the new oil.

It only took a few minutes to remove the sump plug and catch some oil in my patented Castrol 4L container with one side cut out that I was keeping for the next oil change anyway.
Only a slightly messy operation to pop the sump plug back in without dropping it into the container below. At least the oil temperature was ambient.

Some oil was returned via the filler to leave the level sitting perfectly on the bulls-eye glass.

I'll sleep happily tonight.

ps - I guessed I was around 150ml to 200ml overfilled.

It must be a common issue. The motor takes 3.8 litres and the common oil package is 4.0 litres.

For what it is worth, full flushes on Oz toilets are 3.8 or 3.9 litres.

Don't know how to use that info in a practical way.

If the oil was below top of the red circle, it was not overfilled.

Zitat von Aussie Import im Beitrag #2

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It must be a common issue. The motor takes 3.8 litres and the common oil package is 4.0 litres.

For what it is worth, full flushes on Oz toilets are 3.8 or 3.9 litres.

Don't know how to use that info in a practical way.

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I guess that proves Yanks are more full of it than Aussies...

Or does that work the other way??

Bloody chicken or egg, nature or nurture debates.

I know I should of checked but assumed the dealer would be at least competant enough but they overfilled the engine so all I can see in the sight glass is oil. Do I really need to pay £115/hour for this level of incompetence???????

It's not as if the day after I was taking it to that there Europe and chasing a mad German around the countryside now is it......

Regarding overfilling the sump on the RS, instead of the usual answer from your dealer of "They all do that, sir", they have a new reply: "We all do that, sir".