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Echo Beach

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Looking for a level surface on the vehicle
« on: 17 May 2011, 19:11:25 »
Received wisdom is that one should check Oil, and the like, on a level surface.
My drive is not level.
Does anyone happen to know whether there are any surfaces, inside or outside of the car, which I can use to check that the vehicle is level, please?
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Re: Looking for a level surface on the vehicle
« Reply #1 on: 17 May 2011, 19:15:20 »
it only needs to be rack o' th'eye  ;)

ie near enough by eye  :y :y
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Re: Looking for a level surface on the vehicle
« Reply #2 on: 17 May 2011, 19:16:28 »
Front of car facing down gradient............jack in centre of front support beam, door open, spirit level on sill, jack away `till level

Andy........eyesight might be crap :D
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Re: Looking for a level surface on the vehicle
« Reply #3 on: 17 May 2011, 19:42:51 »
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Front of car facing down gradient............jack in centre of front support beam, door open, spirit level on sill, jack away `till level

Andy........eyesight might be crap :D

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Re: Looking for a level surface on the vehicle
« Reply #4 on: 17 May 2011, 19:44:48 »
Echo Beach,

As posted, any reasonably level piece of road / driveway /hard standing will be sufficient to get an accurate oil level reading.

No offence intended, but it's surely not worth all the effort of jacking the car and getting busy with a spirit level ??
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Re: Looking for a level surface on the vehicle
« Reply #5 on: 17 May 2011, 20:48:59 »
Thanks for your responses.
I hadn't planned to resort to using the jack.
It sounds like the closest (to level) surface are the door sills.
Thanks
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