So lets start, back seat down slide my stuff out the boot onto the back seats ? Lift soundproof mat and plush that up on back seats too.
6 plastic thumb twizzlers and of course I watched the you tube video of a pretty girl undo them and check her oil, can I undo them with my finger? No. picture on engine cover and manual both recommend screwdriver. so I find a suitably large screwdriver. does that work? No, its clear I might snap a twizzle that way. Things are so tight I eventually have to grip them with a bar clamp. Engine cover off and I can now finally check the oil level. Engine is a bit warm from a long run but its had 15 minutes to stand while I negotiated the tight bolts.
I wipe the dip stick and check and to my horror the oil seems to be just touching the bottom of the dip stick. Not the minimum marker but the bottom of the stick.
pour in about 250ml still low. 500ml? At this point I think has this car left the factory with too little oil? After the over tight bolts my mind jumps to things like this. Ok I give it around 850ml, more than I should but just to get the level up to about the right level.
So I go eat my lunch and come back to give it one more check before I screw the lid back down and damn in my haste I've gone and over filled it! the oil is about 1/3 the difference between min and max above max! that's 300ml too much oil. How did I do that? Well it's always recommended to only check oil on a cold engine and on other cars I owned it made very little difference but on the Twingo with the engine lying on its side, oil filler at one end, dip stick at the other it seems it really does make a big difference, probably not just in checking the oil level but also in topping up!
MUST REMEMBER:
1) Check oil cold.
2) After pouring oil in, wait a minute or two for oil to run down into sump.
Oh well, I could easy suck some oil back out, couldn't I, I mean some French cars (Citroen BX being one) had to have used engine oil sucked out due to not having a sump plug and a lot of garages do it that way for speed and convenience. Long thin 5mm pipe retrieved from garage, dip stick out, its a long dip stick, but my pipe is long too. Can I get pipe in as far as dip stick? Erm No, somethings snaging it, the route if the dip stick must follow a sharp bend once out the other end of the guide. Ok, can I succeed from the oil filler? Even less luck there. Now it looks like it's getting dark, I got other things to do and I'll have to take motorbike to work tomorrow. Will be a case of me having to take the drain plug out to loose some oil, that or I think I have a more flexible bit of pipe somewhere that might just work. Other resort calling Renault to come do it for me if this kind of things covered.
For reference it seems oil was probably just below half way between min and max as the difference is apparently 900ml. Seems likely cars are filled at factory to the mid point and engine could have used 100ml running in?
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