I recently got my 2005 g35 coupe 6 speed and I've been having trouble reading the oil dip stick I tried using grip tape and scuff up the dip stick a little as I saw on some YouTube videos where that worked but for me it just simply doesn't work any tips or things I should to ? thanks in advance

 

 

Sanding the dipstick like that will only make it worse. What works is doing exactly what Scorpio said or if you ABSOLUTELY MUST do hot checks you can take a small triangular file and deepen the factory hashes.

Cold checks work perfect though, it's hard to screw that one up.

 

I will try this tomorrow morning I hope it works