k.b.

User Error.
Americas obesity problem is not because they manufacture forks and spoons to low standards.
100 people die per day from gunshot wounds in the US. It's not because guns are all made poorly.

tomjv

Admittedly, I'm no expert on the eco motor, but I've been doing oil changes for over 40 years. One thing I know about oil levels is, a little low is BETTER than a little high. If it were me, I'd suck it up and drain some out. Been there, don't that. Sucks but, it is what it is. At least you caught it.

A couple guys said what's correct; add 5. Run. Top off.

TomJV

Ricklee4570

A friend of mine works at a Ford dealership. Just for the fun of it, we checked the oil level on all the new F-150's on the lot with the 2.7 engine. Total of 12 trucks. On every single one of them, the oil level was slightly above the circle cutout on the dipstick, which is considerably higher than the cross hatches. That is not warming the engine up and letting it sit for 15 minutes. That is just going out on a cold engine and checking. On mine, (2017) it almost always registers at the hole in the dipstick, sometimes slightly above after the 15 minute wait. I now have 36,000 miles on mine with no issues.

Napalm

Supposedly part of the dealer prep once delivered involves checking the oil level - I bet money junior G man on the job figured the level was low becasue it wasn't on the hole and did bother with a manual.

Call it a hunch.

Ricklee4570

Two of the trucks came right off of the car hauler and they were the same.

Napalm

i sit corrected them.

BareBonesXL

The purpose of the dip stick is set/measure/confirm the level, the top surface, of the oil at the proper position to where it's not getting whipped up by the crankshaft weights, but not so low that the pump gets starved. You could add a 20 quart pan to your engine and the same dipstick would be required. Quantity of oil is not important. Where the surface is, is. The dip stick reading is all that matters.

The only way to be ultimately confident in your dip stick is to remove the oil pan and measure where the end of the dip stick is. And to also know where Ford wanted it to be. Ford wants the oil surface to be within a certain defined range.

RL1990

The engines are filled with oil at the factory by a computer. It fills a dry engine with 6 quarts exactly. It would be nearly impossible for computer to overfill a dry engine.

Jennie745

There are no oil change ramps to speak of, which means that you will have difficulty changing your oil on the side of the road.

The other tough detail is digging up a drain plug, as they are always recessed way down low under the engine. A standard easy-to-find drain plug does not exist for this make or model. And unlike some other cars with rubber plugs that can easily be pulled out, there's no good way to extract it other than digging it up with a socket wrench. So if you're taking your car into an auto shop for an oil change--without first doing some research into what type of plug they use--well then you're kind of asking for $50 highlighter pen and