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Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc

My 99 996 C4 has a electronic oil level gauge and a dipstick . When we rebuilt the engine we installed a brand new oil level sensor . Guess what ? It doesn't work 😏 .

No problem I use the dipstick . Coming from military aircraft production I like redundancy. My 02 Boxster S also has both setups and the dash gauge is dead nuts on with the dipstick .

That was the great thing about my old air-cooled 911. Any time I came to a stop at a stop light after a few secs of idling, I could tell the oil level at a glance, and the gauge was spot on. I rarely needed to use the dip stick in the old car (but I would check with the dipstick from time to time).


The new gauges require the car to have been running and now be off, and then based on temp, make you wait a period of time before they'll register a level. And the minimum period of time (if you just turned off the car) is 5 mins. It would be great to have a dip stick as an option in the new car.