I do the same. Let it warm up fully and after stopping wait for some 10 minutes. It's OK if the drivers side reads a little low compared to the other side, just take the lowest side and remember, overfilling is as dangerous as too little oil

 

Is there so little oil in the engine or is the oil still that light of color? Be sure to have enough oil in it!

 

I think I put in 4.25 quarts of oil during my last oil change and added an extra quarter after about 2k miles of driving because it looked low one day when I was checking the oil levels. It's been 2k miles already and it's happening again. I'm going to do an oil change this weekend and see what happens. The oil light isn't lit so I'm safe I guess.

 

Don't trust the oil light, trust what the dipstick says!

 

im still confused, so whats the point of the cold check if you do the hot check, do i add oil if the cold reading is on low, or if the hot reading is low, because the hot reading was on full!

 

Holy old thread batman! If the hot reading says your full then you are fine.

 

When you do a oil & filter change,just pour in 5 qts.That's close enough.

BTW,on my 03(78k miles) I never have to add oil between changes.

\rlr
carolina

 

Pretty funny the level of anality that we used to have about nonsense like this.

relineracing, 5 qts. never gets me to full. And, on my MY02, I always have to add oil every couple of weeks. My compression is great, by the way, as testing at 100K mi, but it has always burned oil.

 

Checked my oil tonight at the gas station after fillup and was kind of confused one side was above full make and other was at little under half mark

 

That seems way off, Breaking Point. Probably you didn't really clean off both sides of the dipstick before pushing it in.