Originally Posted by Triple_Se7en
Wait - I'm confused (as always).....
So you now prefer to keep the oil dipstick level at a half quart over, or a half quart low?
T7. . . in our old (now my son's) 2.0T Santa Fe, after Hyundai updated the dipstick to increase oil level at the full mark, I noticed that oil level would not stay at full. I learned that if the oil level was allowed to drop to about the mid-point between high / low marks on the dipstick, the level would stabilize at that point, with no further need to add oil.
In the case of the 2.0T, the new dipstick only increased the sump level by .24 qts., but that was enough to cause a consumption issue in that vehicle. I'd suggested to Chris that allowing the level to drop slightly on the dipstick might solve his consumption issue.