By Dad, how do I?
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How to check your car’s oil.
I recommend getting your oil changed (at least) every 5,000 miles.
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okay I had a lot of requests for how to
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check your engine oil and so I’m gonna
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show you how to do that it’s fairly easy
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so don’t be intimidated by it you want
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to pop your hood and then locate this
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yellow on my engine that’s yellow I
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think they’ve tried to standardize it
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and louver cars but then mine even says
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engine oil on it so just make sure
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you’re checking the correct thing and
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what we’re doing is this is a fairly
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crude drawing but it just shows the
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dipstick going down into the pan in the
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bottom of your engine okay so that’s why
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it’s important to be on a flat surface
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so you’re getting an accurate reading I
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would recommend doing this every time
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you go to the to the gas station or
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every other time while you’re filling up
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just pop the hood and do what I’m gonna
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do okay
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and make sure you have it all the way
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down in so you can get an accurate
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reading and then you just look and on
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mine it says F and L full or low and you
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want to be somewhere in that range
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and there’s or there could just be two
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dots I think on older vehicles there’s
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just two dots you just want to be in
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that range and you want to pay attention
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to the color of your oil too if it’s
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like a light brown that’s good if it’s
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black you better go get your oil change
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– right because the oil oil is an
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important part of your engine it keeps
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all the parts lubricated okay
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that’s about it but I’ve also had
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requests for how to change your oil but
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that’s not something I normally do
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because I just don’t think it’s a good
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use of my time by the time you pay for
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the oil pay for the oil filter pay for
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the oil pan whatever you’re gonna do to
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catch the oil and a lot of people don’t
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have places where they can work on cars
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– so and you can get an oil change for
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usually thirty or forty dollars just
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look around look for coupons online so I
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don’t recommend that Mike to my kids I
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wouldn’t recommend it to you but I will
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say that if you go there just be
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prepared they might say oh yeah you need
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an air filter you need windshield wiper
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they do try to upsell you a lot of times
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it’s a loss leader to get you in that’s
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why it can be cheap so if you’re just
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gonna get your oil change with big oil
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change and then eventually I hope to
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show you how to change a windshield
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wiper obviously you know this is just
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one car and each thing very each car
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varies a little bit so but it gives you
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the general idea that shows you that you
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can have the confidence to figure out
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how to did this yourself so anyway at
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the end of this video I will add on what
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my dipstick looks like the F and L so
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you can see since I didn’t provide a
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close-up for that anyway hope this was
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helpful take care okay I wanted to show
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you what that F and that L look like on
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my BIP stick so that’s that’s it and
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then this is the like the nice light
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brown that you want to that you’re
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looking for so you want to be in this
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range right here right so you want to
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have the oil be somewhere in their minds
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obviously full but somewhere in here if
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it’s below that you’re going to need to
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add some oil if there’s nothing showing
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here you definitely want to add some oil
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and I’ll show you how to do that you
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needed to just to temporarily get your
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buy between oil changes this year if
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it’s not registering on that dipstick or
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if it’s below the L there’s just a
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little top here that you screw off and
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mine actually tells me what type of oil
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to use to 5w 20 okay so then let’s take
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your take your oil and dump it in I
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actually happen to have 5w30 on hand and
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if it’s oils not registering at all or
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if it’s below that low level just to get
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you by it’d be better to put some oil in
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then oil and run it low because if you
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run your engine without oil it could
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seize up on you and that’s thousands of
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dollars so I would rather run some sort
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of oil in there temporarily until you
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can get to an oil change and have them
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have been filled it up properly
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alright thank you
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