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Originally Posted by Lafourche1
It takes a bit of an effort, but what I do is be sure the car has set in the garage over-night. I then pull the dipstick and wipe it off. I then set the dipstick on the side for about 10 minutes. This gives everything a chance to drain down. I then reinsert the dipstick, leave for XX seconds and then pull. This usually gives a better reading. It is a bit of a pain, but it seems to give me a reading fairly consistently. (someone else posted this method and I flat stole it)
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That is an effective work-around for something that could be easily solved by simply having a flat metal dipstick with cross-hatches on it.
I wonder what they were thinking when they adopted this dipstick. "Hey, this new dipstick is harder to read both hot and cold, and offers only disadvantages to our customers. Let's use it!"