Is the mourning for the oil dipstick justified? Oh no, as we will prove in the following. Sure, with some modern computer systems the control of the oil level takes longer than if you just pull out a rod, plaster, insert and pull out again. But, believe me, it's worth it.

Perhaps you drove like us through France in gray prehistory, not yet on the Route du Soleil but the Route National. It was an accepted brand labelled tank station with a fraudulent filling station attendant . He opened the bonnet quite unasked, pulled the oil dipstick, cleaned it, and unfortunately did not put it back all the way back.

He was able to prove that oil was missing and selling the naturally only available two-liter containers to the customers. The financial loss involved the possible damage caused by too much oil in the engine. One thing is absolutely certain, with an electronic oil control this would not have been possible.

It is also necessary to reject considerations that one can draw some conclusions from the oil droplet on the dipstick. If this would be so simple, no laboratory would be needed on large ships, which after extensive research decides how much new oil should replace the old one in the lubrication circuit (20 tons and more).

The color as an indicator of oil change? For example, with a diesel engine a larger tour after the oil change, then the oil is almost as black as the exchanged. No, an oil dipstick says only a little about the amount of oil, provided the vehicle is on a straight plane and the engine has been running and stopped for a while.

But such an electronic measurement, if performed automatically at certain intervals, has the invaluable advantage of warning you if not enough oil is in the engine, even if you have not thought of it for a long time. Of course, just modern engines consume significantly less oil than earlier. 01/16