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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Terrorist 5.0" data-source="post: 1580057" data-attributes="member: 30689">My 5.0 had a normal dipstick (not like yours, mine was just a stick with crosshatching on it), but apparently they are known to be wildly inaccurate.If I were you, next time you are due for an oil change, get a normal style dipstick if you can find one, fill your car up with oil, take a reading, and mark out the stick manually. I made one mark and took scotchbrite to the area below it. Worked like a charm. Accurate to less than a MM.If you want, you can fill the oil up, but leave out a quart. You could make a fill mark in addition to the max mark. I didn’t, but it would have been a nice touch.As for the “weird” reading, that is completely normal when you check the oil more than once, or right after driving. There is residual oil on the dipstick tubing. You were right to take the lower reading.</blockquote>