How to read a dip stick
My husband and I don’t know much about cars at all, but we’re slowly trying to learn and familiarize ourselves with the rights and wrongs on car maintenance. We are hardcore beginners. We’re reading the dipstick for our oil this morning, there is barely any liquid at all above the full line on the dip stick. It is only visible on one side of the dipstick when we pull it out, currently we’re in a cold climate. Is it condensation or is the car to full on oil? There is a little bit of dark oil near the bottom of the dipstick
It’s a 2019 Kia Rio hatchback
Check your user manual for WHEN to read it.
But you pull it out, wipe it down, insert, pull it out again, and look at both sides.
You’ll see the oil level somewhere on it.