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Originally Posted by stevegillings
I find it difficult to read my Tacoma's oil stick. The oil always seems to be all over the place. This has never happened to me before with any other vehicle. Anybody else experience this? Any way to avoid it?
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Yeah, it's a pain, at least on the V6. This works for me. Pull the dipstick all the way out and wipe it clean. Stick it back in about 6 inches so most of it hangs out. Wait 5-10 minutes for all the oil in the tube to drain back down. Then push the dipstick all the way in with one thrust, pull it all the way out and read it. One side or the other usually will have a solid line of oil that is easy to read. The problem with the long tube is that oil seems to seep up into it and won't easily drain back down with the stick inserted. If you repeatedly pull and replace the dipstick it makes it worse because each time you pull it out you drag more oil back up into the tube.