My oil was overfilled. How much is too much?

[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by Perkele

Will definitely bring it back to them to drain out the excess oil. This will be the last time I bring my Yaris into the Toyota dealer for an oil change. I will change oil myself and as inconvenient as it may be, it's worth it because if they overfill by such a significant amount I have trouble trusting them to do it again. Such a careless, sloppy mistake.

Yes, I get your frustration. Certainly, you'd expect to have a Toyota dealership do the job correctly. Years ago I owned a 5.0 Mustang LX. The car had a double hump oil pan with two drains. It wasn't a dealer oil change but they only drained one side of the pan and then refilled with the factory spec amount. I was significantly overfilled as a result. Obviously, they just dumped the oil in and didn't even bother checking the dipstick, dipsticks!

Doing your own oil changes is the best way to ensure that you get the job done properly. Plus, it's rewarding and saves a lot of money, especially since you can grab a high quality, inexpensive jug of synthetic oil and a filter from any Walmart.

[Leegamer]

Originally Posted by 06YarisRS

Yes, I get your frustration. Certainly, you'd expect to have a Toyota dealership do the job correctly. Years ago I owned a 5.0 Mustang LX. The car had a double hump oil pan with two drains. It wasn't a dealer oil change but they only drained one side of the pan and then refilled with the factory spec amount. I was significantly overfilled as a result. Obviously, they just dumped the oil in and didn't even bother checking the dipstick, dipsticks!

Doing your own oil changes is the best way to ensure that you get the job done properly. Plus, it's rewarding and saves a lot of money, especially since you can grab a high quality, inexpensive jug of synthetic oil and a filter from any Walmart.

Wow, 2 drains? I have never owned a car like that or even considered that possibility. It just goes to show you though that places that specialize in something as trivial as an oil change can screw it up.

I guess the benefit is that if they screw it up and it causes a catastrophic failure they can be held liable (though probably difficult to prove). If I screw up it's all on me, but I'll still keep changing my own oil because I'm cheap. Lol.

[06YarisRS]

Originally Posted by Leegamer

Wow, 2 drains? I have never owned a car like that or even considered that possibility. It just goes to show you though that places that specialize in something as trivial as an oil change can screw it up.

I guess the benefit is that if they screw it up and it causes a catastrophic failure they can be held liable (though probably difficult to prove). If I screw up it's all on me, but I'll still keep changing my own oil because I'm cheap. Lol.

The 5.0 had to sit low in the chassis and the oil pan straddled the front cross member, thus the need for a double hump pan. I think I had that oil change done at Canadian Tire. It was likely farmed out to a 17 yr old. Lol. I think that's about the time I started doing my own changes. Haha. As for being cheap...I am too. lol. You get better oil, better filter, it costs about 1/2 the price and you know it's done right when you DIY.