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Originally Posted by Unknown_Lt1
What creates this difference?
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Could multiple reasons:
- not having the car level when you drain/fill it
- Not draining the oil completely. It takes quite a while to stop dripping
- Not counting the oil you used to pre-fill the filter
- Difference in target fill line on the stick
- Not letting car sit long enough after turning off engine before measuring. I let it sit overnight
- Not waiting 5-10 min after pulling the stick out and wiping off before you put it back in the tube to take a reading (pulling the stick out draws oil up the tube, which will give a false reading if you don't let it first drain back down).