Most liked posts in thread: First thoughts on the Cravenspeed Dipstick

Maybe they'll start making an aftermarket oil pan for the F56 that has an oil dipstick?

 

Ok.
This dipstick is ****. I am talking about the one for the first generation
Today after driving the car for 2 months knowing it burns oil I take the dipstick out and it shows full. Even looks like its more than full. Then I take the old one and check and it shows me below middle.
Bunch of ********

 

I just got my Gen 1 dipstick. It is silky smooth. I measured the length as compared to my stock unit and found that there is a little 'extra' on the Craven dipstick to more accurately monitor 'fullness'. It is easy to gauge the oil in the crankcase. And...it won't crack.

 

interesting. I bought my car with the Cravenspeed dip stick, and it kept indicating full. when I then replaced the oil (via extraction pump rather than let it run out), it was about 1 quart short. I figured it was not reaching all the way down or the oil was all in the filter I removed, etc - just never thought the dip stick could be indicating too high.

Filled it back up to "full" on the dip stick. Seems fine, but I always wondered about what happened to that one missing quart. Now we have a second car with the OEM dip stick - next chance I get I will swap them back and forth and see what the indicator shows on either dip stick.

 

My MINI took 4 1/2 quarts when I changed the oil a couple of weeks ago. That took the oil level to the upper part of the top bulb on the OEM dip stick.

 

I have the first gen dipstick which looks like this.
I got no help from cravenspeed. they said all was fine.

 

^^^ if the length of the Craven dipstick is correct (check it to the original)..... How can it not be fine?

 

When changing oil you always put in X amount and that was full on the factory dipstick then where ever it shows up on the Craven dipstick would be the full reference point.

 

Correct...

 

I couldn't...:cryin::devil:

 

What's that big red thing on the end?

 

Isn't there a stick on panic button available for MINI Cooper dashboards? I remember seeing a picture somewhere.

 

I'm not a big fan of the craven speed dip stick. The 1st gen is fine, easy to read (granted you know how to read a dip stick). Yes it gets brittle and could break. Its part of the maintenance program for these cars. Only buy OEM replacements.

btw, have a gen 1 craven dipstick in a box that I tried. Happy to sell it. PM me.

 

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Wait...what!!!
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Thats SO twisted! :eek6:

 

Its just that I am getting a fault reading and after contacting cravenspeed I got no solution.
I guess the problem is the end of the dipstick.
What about changing it out?

 

Maybe you got it wahred up rong?

 

The red part goes on top......