TLS_Addict

How can you reach behind your driver seat if you are driving?

R&L's C6

I actually enjoy doing the oil changes myself. I find it relaxing to spend some time in the garage with the radio on while having a few beers and working on the car.

Mikado463

hey slipper, the guy demonstrated total automotive ignorance IMO, he came to the forum and admitted he had to look in the manual as to the amount of oil !!!.......after it was driven all those miles !! anybody that I know that owns any vehicle takes the time to read and understand those things AHEAD of TIME !!!!

with respect to your comment....look in the mirror, I suspect you couldn't tell the difference !

BEZ06

I have a 2006 Z06. The early Z06 came with a 7.5 quart dry sump tank.

If you didn't get a "Low Oil Pressure" message in the DIC then I don't think you have anything to worry about.

I run my Z06 with about 7 quarts on the track - anything more than that and it starts to blow it into the intake and can cause problems.

The early 7.5 qt system could have problems when running a track with a high speed left hand sweeper where you generate more than 1 lateral G for in excess of 4 seconds.

There aren't many tracks where that occurs, and my car has many laps around the left hand turns on the Daytona banking, but the lateral G load bounces around from 0.5 to 1.0, so because of the banking I'm not sustaining >1G and have never had a problem at Daytona or other tracks I've been running.

Many owners of the early Z06 have upgraded to a larger oil tank in order to avoid problems.

In 2009, when the ZR1 came out with the current 10.5 qt tank, they just installed that tank on all dry sump systems since then.

There are several oil related messages you may get on the DIC:

• "Check Oil Level" - only will display on oil pan "wet sump" cars; dry sump cars will not ever see this message
  
  
• "Low Oil Pressure" - you should get a "ding" alerting you to check your DIC/gauges, and if you never heard the ding and never saw this message, then you never had low oil pressure
  
  
• You can scroll through the DIC info with the "Trip" button to see the oil life remaining %
  
  
• "Change Engine Oil" - you get this message when the Engine Oil Life Monitor determines that the oil life has "diminished" to a certain level (I think somewhere around 10% remaining)

So....I run track events in my Z06 with about 7 qts - I don't think street driving with 6 qts should cause any problems if you never had an indication of low oil pressure.

BTW, a worse thing would be if they took off your passenger side fuel rail cover, unscrewed the plastic cap that "looks" like where the oil is poured in on an oil pan system, and added oil in there.

Of course with the dry sump system, oil should be added into the dry sump oil tank.

Numerous forum members with the dry sump system have reported that even Chebie dealers have broken the tabs on that cap and poured oil in there - and that can cause BIG problems - including hydro locking the engine, which has resulted in major damage to a couple of forum member's cars.

I say - get the oil changed and filled with the proper quantity by adding it to the oil tank, and check it every so often!!!

I think you're probably okay!!

Bob

PittMD1

It sits more to the side and just reach over with my left hand and it's there. I'm left handed so it works well for me. I tried wearing it on my belt but it is not comfortable.

TLS_Addict

I tried mine on my side too.....wasnt very comfy at all.

I am right handed so the outside of the driver.

glass slipper

I'm ok with his automotive ignorance, I just don't understand why you're getting so bent out of shape about it that made you be an azz towards him. We're all ignorant about many things...for instance, you're completely ignorant when it comes to how to treat people. I'm sure there are many, many, many things you're ignorant about and nobody ever makes caustic comments about it.

And why should he have to know how much oil goes in his car, that's what he paid the shop to do. Do you go to the doctor and tell him how much medication to give you? I know plenty of people who only know how to put gas in the car and start it. Not only that, they don't care to know anything about the car...their eyes just glaze over when you start talking about engines. Why should he read or understand anything at anytime? Once again, that's what he pays other people for.

Obviously, I already stated the difference between being ignorant and being dumb...evidently you didn't catch on. Congratulations, you just graduated from an ignorant azz to a dumb azz. You owe the guy an apology but I don't expect you to man up and do the right thing.

su8pack1

lastcowboy

besure and ask for a print out of that , you my need it later

popbluff

geez, i own lots of cars and trucks, i use the same oil change place probably once a month and have for the last 20 years, they are good guys, i really don't think i'm dummy for not checking there work, i trust them, the grand sport serial number is what shows on there machine how much oil it used, mine is a W and there computor shows 6 quarts, if you look further it shows 3 different applications, for diff engines, was just wanting some info from guys who know something about the oil system on my car, never had one with the sump before, and trying to figure out if 6 quarts was enough not to hurt the motor with this system, we flushed the motor and the old oil looked fine, not dirty and no sighns of metal, he is sending the oil off and the filter to be inspected, he then gave me a written statement that if there error casued any damaged there insurance company would pay for it, pretty much the end of it unless the motor starts to act up on the lower end, thank you guys very much for the good info, and where to carry my gun