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Scooters - 125 to 300 => Grandvista 250 => Topic started by: mverps on October 15, 2014, 06:09:55 PM

Title: Checking oil
Post by: mverps on October 15, 2014, 06:09:55 PM

I keep reading differing opinions on this. Do you check the oil with the dipstick unscrewed, or do you screw it back in and then out to check it?
thanks, Mike

Title: Re: Checking oil
Post by: de dee on October 15, 2014, 06:16:00 PM

you check the oil unscrewed!!!! it says so in your manual

Title: Re: Checking oil
Post by: zombie on October 15, 2014, 06:18:39 PM

unscrewed.
 The action of jiggling it around, lining up the threads, twisting it in/out can give a false reading.
You get a kind of cotton candy effect.

Title: Re: Checking oil
Post by: mverps on October 15, 2014, 06:19:31 PM

thanks, I read in one manual to check it unscrewed, and in another manual to check it screwed in. So you can see my confusion. I appreciate your input.

Title: Re: Checking oil
Post by: BettinANDlosing on October 15, 2014, 06:32:33 PM

Also, obvious, but make sure it is on the center stand on level ground!!!! You have no idea how many customers I've had over-fill their oil because they had it on the kickstand!!