Originally Posted by TurTLe*

you do have to realize that this dipstick design on the Vq35 is crap. Its takes a couple of tries to get a solid reading. Because it normally hits something coming up and oil drips on there.

most of the time i check my oil there are spots way above the blue but i just look at the solid oil marks on the stick. I forget how many quarts of oil the G takes, but on V6 motors i normally stop at 4.5 and just pull out the stick to see if its dry or not. Most 4 bangers i stop at 3.5 to check. Its not too hard to drain oil back out.

m3's and VW v6's are thirsty cars for oil tho.



Oil smell can be due to the design of the engine. And location of the oil filter. Most shops for some reason always missing the oil filler hole the first time and it drips around the valve cover. If the oil filter is above like the subframe, oil can get trapped, or etc. But i almost never smell burning oil. Even on my parent's 4 banger camry where the oil fitler is right in your face on the block, the filter always drips oil on the engine NO MATTER what.