I have a Chevy Impala. It takes 4.5 quarts of oil. I liked it when they sold 4 quart bottles of oil. So I would buy one 4 quart bottle and one 1 quart bottle and pour in the 4 quart and the half of the 1 quart.
2 days ago, I went to the store to buy oil because our cars are due and found they don't sell the 4 quart bottles anymore but 5 liter bottles. Why in the world would oil makers sell liter bottles? Oil isn't measured in a car in liters.
So, I figured out that the 5 liters is equal to 5.28 quarts. So my car takes 4.5 quarts of oil. So somehow, I need to pour in the oil and leave .78 quarts in this big bottle as I pour it.
My dad always taught me when pouring oil, always pour exactly how much it takes. Don't go by the dipstick when changing because it takes a while to all settle. Just dump it all out and pour in exactly what the specs says it takes and it is right. But trying to pour in 4.5 quarts and trying to leave .78 quarts in this huge bottle is stupid.
There has to be a reason or maybe a trick I just don't know. Or has all the new cars switched to liters in measuring their engine oil? If that's the case, it makes sense... I just haven't heard about the huge switch from quarts to liters for engine oil measuring.
I could've bought the quarts bottles, but when buying oil for both my wife and my car, it saved me 20 bucks to buy the liter bottles. My plan is to go to Walmart or somewhere and find a quart measuring container and I'll just have to pour it in there to measure it out right.
I can't pour it into an old quart oil bottle because a quart is somewhere between the top of the reading viewer thing on the side and the top, so it would be a guessing game if I were to try to measure it that way.