God Dam I will kill the silly ass Italian bugger who designed the 2.4 Stilo Abarth and the ever so glorious oil dipstick, he better not ever make himself known publicly 
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This is the third time that this stupid, untrustworthy, foolish thing has intimidated me with its reading and thank god that in the end nothing very costly happened.
Yesterday afternoon I was simply retuning back to a park and ride car park to pick the red beast up and drive home, as I had not checked the oil for over 2 weeks and as it had been sitting there since early morning I thought for sure I can get an accurate oil reading, so popped the bonnet open, pull the oil measuring stick out, wiped it clean and took another reading. The oil reading I got was just over 1/4, I doubled and triple checked it and got the same reading, I thought myself “s*** how is that possible”, “I checked it over 2 weeks ago and the oil sump was full??”
At this point I was in worry mode and all I could think off was to get to the nearest Halfords as I was not sure that the petrol stations around the area and supermarkets sold 10w60 oil. The town that I was in, unfortunately I could not locate the root to the nearest Halfords so I had to torture myself with no choice but to drive back home to my local Halfords to then pick up some oil from there. As I share transport with a few colleagues to cut the costs of travelling I had to nip in to the town from the park and ride to pick them up. Once I parked up outside my Uni I switched the car off and left it for around 10 minutes or so. I knew I was not going to get an accurate reading whatsoever but my mind was in panic mode and I though “just checked it again, surely it can be right, surely..??” I did as stated and the oil reading I got was 0……at this point I was mentally stressed out and all I could think off was “I need OOOILLLLLL, NOW” I had around 2cl of Mobil 10w60 oil left over from my last top up as I could not get hold of any Selenia through a store so I chucked it in and after a while I checked the oil level again and still 0……I was thinking over and over again “how is this possible”.
After an agonizing, pain staking 35 minute trip back home, once I dropped my colleagues off I eventually made way and pulled up at my local Halfords, also made sure I parked up on a flat surface. I then ran in the store and grabbed some Mobil 10w60, I could not have been any longer that 10 minutes, once I returned to car, I took one last oil reading before pumping a 5 litre oil bottle in to the sump and well, well, well what do you say, the oil reading I got was a 1/2…..I really did not know what to think to myself at that point other than WTF ???????? I gave the car another 10 minutes and took another reading and yes you guessed it was still a 1/2…. When I thought back to the park and ride car park that I was parked in, I realised that the car had not been parked entirely on flat surface and this explained why I had a 1/4 oil reading back then. I proceeded to drive home without putting any oil in as I simply could not trust this oil measuring stick. The best thing that I could was to take an accurate reading prior cold start first thing in the morning, also making sure that the car was parked on a flat surface and then take it from there to then see how much oil it actually needed.
So got up for my new job nice and early this morning, got to the car, popped the bonnet open, took a reading and I got just over a 100% oil reading from the dipstick???!!!!!! I could not believe my eyes so I proceeded to take at least another 4 readings and each single one came back with a measure of oil reading just over full, how lucky I felt at this point for being stubborn, and also reflected on the amount of money that I had just saved, this could have been a very costly mistake.
I simply cannot stress any more to all 2.4 owners how crap, unreliable, deceiving and badly designed the Stilo 2.4 Abarth engine dipstick really is, it lies over and over again and the only way you can take an absolute accurate reading is to park the car in flat ground, a MUST and take the reading either prior a cold start or when the car has been sitting for a fair few hours after a trip.
PEOPLE you have been warmed, don’t trust this stupid instrument, it LIES big time and it nearly gave me a costly event to take care off as what would have happened is that I would have over filled the sump and would have had to drain all the old and fresh new oil back out, all because of this stupid, useless thing, god dam it.
……..This is the third time that this stupid, untrustworthy, foolish thing has intimidated me with its reading and thank god that in the end nothing very costly happened.
Yesterday afternoon I was simply retuning back to a park and ride car park to pick the red beast up and drive home, as I had not checked the oil for over 2 weeks and as it had been sitting there since early morning I thought for sure I can get an accurate oil reading, so popped the bonnet open, pull the oil measuring stick out, wiped it clean and took another reading. The oil reading I got was just over 1/4, I doubled and triple checked it and got the same reading, I thought myself “s*** how is that possible”, “I checked it over 2 weeks ago and the oil sump was full??”
At this point I was in worry mode and all I could think off was to get to the nearest Halfords as I was not sure that the petrol stations around the area and supermarkets sold 10w60 oil. The town that I was in, unfortunately I could not locate the root to the nearest Halfords so I had to torture myself with no choice but to drive back home to my local Halfords to then pick up some oil from there. As I share transport with a few colleagues to cut the costs of travelling I had to nip in to the town from the park and ride to pick them up. Once I parked up outside my Uni I switched the car off and left it for around 10 minutes or so. I knew I was not going to get an accurate reading whatsoever but my mind was in panic mode and I though “just checked it again, surely it can be right, surely..??” I did as stated and the oil reading I got was 0……at this point I was mentally stressed out and all I could think off was “I need OOOILLLLLL, NOW” I had around 2cl of Mobil 10w60 oil left over from my last top up as I could not get hold of any Selenia through a store so I chucked it in and after a while I checked the oil level again and still 0……I was thinking over and over again “how is this possible”.
After an agonizing, pain staking 35 minute trip back home, once I dropped my colleagues off I eventually made way and pulled up at my local Halfords, also made sure I parked up on a flat surface. I then ran in the store and grabbed some Mobil 10w60, I could not have been any longer that 10 minutes, once I returned to car, I took one last oil reading before pumping a 5 litre oil bottle in to the sump and well, well, well what do you say, the oil reading I got was a 1/2…..I really did not know what to think to myself at that point other than WTF ???????? I gave the car another 10 minutes and took another reading and yes you guessed it was still a 1/2…. When I thought back to the park and ride car park that I was parked in, I realised that the car had not been parked entirely on flat surface and this explained why I had a 1/4 oil reading back then. I proceeded to drive home without putting any oil in as I simply could not trust this oil measuring stick. The best thing that I could was to take an accurate reading prior cold start first thing in the morning, also making sure that the car was parked on a flat surface and then take it from there to then see how much oil it actually needed.
So got up for my new job nice and early this morning, got to the car, popped the bonnet open, took a reading and I got just over a 100% oil reading from the dipstick???!!!!!! I could not believe my eyes so I proceeded to take at least another 4 readings and each single one came back with a measure of oil reading just over full, how lucky I felt at this point for being stubborn, and also reflected on the amount of money that I had just saved, this could have been a very costly mistake.
I simply cannot stress any more to all 2.4 owners how crap, unreliable, deceiving and badly designed the Stilo 2.4 Abarth engine dipstick really is, it lies over and over again and the only way you can take an absolute accurate reading is to park the car in flat ground, a MUST and take the reading either prior a cold start or when the car has been sitting for a fair few hours after a trip.
PEOPLE you have been warmed, don’t trust this stupid instrument, it LIES big time and it nearly gave me a costly event to take care off as what would have happened is that I would have over filled the sump and would have had to drain all the old and fresh new oil back out, all because of this stupid, useless thing, god dam it.
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