What do you use to wipe your dipstick?

[Gary Allan]

I try and keep fast food napkins stocked in the minivan. The wife routinely removes them for some type of para-OCD. This, btw, seems to be a traight that extends to the rest of our lives. I'm just about limited to the garage ..and that too is now being invaded and being evaluated as a new place to plant her flag.

 

[TallPaul]

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Originally posted by Gary Allan:
I'm just about limited to the garage ..and that too is now being invaded and being evaluated as a new place to plant her flag.

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I hear ya. I have a two car garage and it houses the wife's minivan, kids outdoor toys and bicycles, shovels, miscellaneous junk, and a small workbench area in the corner for me. Ah, but I have 90% of the celler (a third of which is oil stash) and the room under the basement stairway as my remaining havens. Wife and kids both covet the little stairway room. Sometimes I feel like a troll down there in my cold little cell.

 

[TallPaul]

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I can't believe between all the BITOG'ers using toilet paper, silk ties, booger wipes etc....
that nonody has adressed :

_______are you a " folder " or a " cruncher "____user

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I am mostly a folder, thought it does get crunched by the time I am finished.

 

[bamorris2]

I fold it into perfect squares, and then give it a nice little scrunch right before the wipe. Helps get into the nooks & crannies.

 

[ThirdeYe]

An old hand towel. I find that the shop rags (turtle wax brand) I used to use, left little fibers on the dipstick so I stopped using those.

 

[97f150]

I use whatever is around. Paper Towels, fingers, leaves, an old receipt in my pocket. I will not however use any article of clothing that I am wearing or plan to ever wear again. Mostly I just grab a couple of paper towels on the way out the door.

 

[Auto-Union]

Mobil 1 High-Performance Dipstick Wipes

 

[01rangerxl]

Usually I use a paper towel or fast food napkin. The Ranger always gets the luxury of a clean paper towel/napkin. The Explorer gets whatever happens to be laying on the floor in the back.

 

[virginoil]

Poster: TooManyWheels "What is a dipstick?"

So what's the answer! I can't hold my breath any longer.

Virginoil

 

[Camu Mahubah]

Check it cold...if not use paper towel, shirt, or whatever, then once with the fingers to rid the stick of any adherents...one time I remember thinking some of my skin cells were now twirling around in the engine...and some of the oil molecules were now twirling around in my bloodstream...

 

[Virtuoso]

Usually, I check it when cold, so I note the oil level and stick it back in with no wiping. If I have to wipe it though, I usually keep a rag in the trunk.

 

[lars11]

Analog? Not mine. It's binary "good" or "bad". Or maybe trinay: Low-Good-Over. Actually, a two bit binary word would do to describe all situations...

 

[Quest]

I use toilet paper for it's cheep and gets the job dune right. The kitten-shoft ones are my favorite.

 

[mazduh30]

Shop rag I store it under the driver's seat in a zip lock bag.

 

[TallPaul]

Bump. Good time to revisit this topic.

 

[Dr_No]

AHHHH ye be gravedigger!

 

[ThirdeYe]

I keep a bunch of clean napkins in my glove box that I use for checking it away from home. At home I just use a clean shop towel or paper towel.

 

[Tosh]

Originally Posted By: TallPaul
Good time to revisit this topic.

Why, has there been a breakthrough in absorbency materials? I did notice there's a new TV ad for a bladder sensitivity product that can "absorb as much as a towel." Whatever that means.

 

[harley145000]

girls friends old thong

 

[TallPaul]

Originally Posted By: Tosh
Originally Posted By: TallPaul
Good time to revisit this topic.

Why, has there been a breakthrough in absorbency materials? ...
No, just like to pull it up now and then as we get new members and it's nice to see what they are doing. Now I can't remember what I said earlier in this thread, but for a long time now I have a toilet paper roll on a roller over the workbench, specifically for wiping dipsticks. Wife doesn't want her friends to see this corner of the garage, lest they wonder just what I do with toilet paper in the garage.

If you do the toilet paper route, don't skimp, get the best as cheap toilet paper leaves a lot of paper shards on the stick. You want the most expensive toilet paper you can get.