Help! I just changed my oil and added a little over 6 quarts. The manual states 6 1/8 qt. with filter change. However, everywhere I look (including a couple places on this forum) the capacity is routinely said to be 5 quarts. Did this change for 2008 (my model year)? Is it different because of AWD? Sorry to sound dense. I don't understand why every online source says five quarts when my manual says six. The big problem is, I want to blast up to Taos this weekend (about 300 miles round trip) with a gal I'm crazy about, and I'm paranoid that I've overfilled and will have problems on the road. Removing the splash guard and oil plug is something I only want to do if I must--if I can't confirm that 6 quarts was the right amount to pour into my engine.
This issue is compounded by the oil dipstick in my car's engine, which was exhaustively engineered at great expense to be inaccurate and difficult to use. It has two sharp angle bends in the rigid portion of the handle, and a nice bend in the flat, flexible part. So it is designed to bind and catch when inserted or removed, and to snap like a spring when you manage to pull it out of its three foot long channel, flinging oil everywhere and creating three different places on the stick that might be considered the fill level.
Can anyone who owns a 2008 M35x reassure me that the engine takes 6 1/8 quarts of oil, and save me some time laying under my car playing with motor oil? I would be most grateful.
Daniel
