How to Check Oil in Your Car

If you don’t know how to check the oil in your car, there’s no better time than the present to learn. While you can count on LaFontaine Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram (CDJR) of Fenton to change your oil, you can quickly give it a once-over yourself. This ensures that your car runs well near Fenton, Brighton, and Howell, Michigan, before your oil change.

When you take the dipstick out, carefully examine it. You’ll want to check out where the line of oil lies. It should be either at the full line or in between the full and add lines.

You should also look at the oil’s condition. Is it gold, transparent, and flowing like honey? Or is it dark, sludgy, and moving slowly?

New oil should be the former while older oil will be the consistency of what’s detailed in the latter. After driving for miles, your car picks up all kinds of dirt and debris. The oil absorbs all this matter and eventually must be changed along with the filter. Dirty oil cannot effectively move through the engine and its parts, leading to less-than-ideal performance.