# What's the best time of day to check oil? **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** toyota, tundra\ **Created:** [April 10, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371 "2018-04-10T01:59:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/61 "2018-04-24T14:29:13Z")
> [@the\_same\_mountainbike](#): > > My previous house had a 3/4-acre yard. I used a tractor for that one. There’d be no way to reasonably mow that with an electric. I have 2.5 acres with 1.5 acre of lawn. I have a 45" walk-behind industrial mower and it takes me 1.5 hours to mow. When I retire and downsize my house - I’m also downsizing my lawn. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/62 "2018-04-24T14:42:06Z")
> [@B.L.E](#): > > I wonder if they haven’t already tried it at The Possum Lodge up there in Canada. LOL, naw, that’d be much too simple for Red Green! ---
**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/63 "2018-04-24T14:50:17Z")
I’m mowing my lawn, trimming, and running a blower right now! Oh, wait! That’s not me, it’s some landscaping crew with a bunch of workers I hear down on the ground below, ha, ha… … The joke will soon be on me because when I get back up north the grass will probably be a foot high with sticks everywhere. I’ll look around, but there won’t be anybody except me to handle it. I have to replace that house with a condo soon! _ **CSA** _ 🌴🕶🌴 ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/64 "2018-04-24T20:40:30Z")
> [@common\_sense\_answer](#): > > I have to replace that house with a condo soon! You already did. You just haven’t sold the old house yet. One or two seasons of a shabby yard in MI might convince you that one home is the way to go. OTOH, there might still be a foot of snow on the ground that hasn’t melted yet. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/65 "2018-04-24T21:00:28Z")
Who would have thought we’d be up to 64 responses? Yeah last week we were snowed in and this week it’s 70 degrees? Most snow is gone now. It’s a good point about checking oil on the level which is an advantage to Florida. Lots of level except for @Whitey s driveway. But I believe in precision so to answer the question, the best time is 10:34 am and second best would be 2:15 pm. Other than that, any time. I always like to schedule meetings at odd times just to make a point of when they would start. So instead of 2:00, it would be 2:07. No one would dare come in at 2:10. So 10:34 it is for checking oil. ---
**Author:** ![insightful](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/insightful/32/2732_2.png) [@insightful](https://community.cartalk.com/u/insightful)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/66 "2018-04-24T21:27:33Z")
> [@bing](#): > > No one would dare come in at 2:10. I once had to hustle to get to a 2:00 group meeting in the boss’s boss’s office. I walked in at 2:03 and saw I was the first to arrive. I said to “Mr. Big” sitting behind his desk, “Whew, I thought I was going to be late.” He just looked up at me and said, “You ARE late!” Well, couldn’t argue with that… ;-] ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bing/32/4619_2.png) [@bing](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 9:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/67 "2018-04-24T21:40:27Z")
Worst thing is when the meeting only lasts a couple of minutes and its all over the time you get there. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/68 "2018-04-24T23:15:46Z")
Having meetings was a problem at my old employer. People would come in late and information would be repeated twice or more times, making meetings painful for those that came on time. They started a new program. Meetings started on time. If someone was late, they missed whatever happened before they got there. Meetings also ended on time. If the meeting was scheduled for 30 minutes, it ended after 30 minutes. If there was unfinished business, another meeting was scheduled to address it. The new meeting system worked well. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/69 "2018-04-25T01:17:21Z")
We had a company in NH (Cabletron) wherein the two founders eliminated seats in the meeting rooms and had the conference tables made to standing height. The idea was that attendees would not waste time if they all had to stand. I have no idea if it worked. All I know is that Cabletron ended up defunct anyway due to technology obsolescence. ---
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:50am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/70 "2018-04-25T01:50:16Z")
> [@the\_same\_mountainbike](#): > > I wonder if they haven’t already tried it at The Possum Lodge up there in Canada. > > LOL, naw, that’d be much too simple for Red Green! He’d probably rig up a radio control for the lawn mower. Sit on the deck with a cold beer while steering the mower around the lawn with a RC transmitter. Maybe even put a camera on the mower for first person view radio control mowing while wearing virtual reality goggles. Heck, we don’t need self driving cars, we need self mowing lawn mowers. If only the prolific white tail deer population in our neighborhood grazed on grass instead of eating shrubbery! ---
**Author:** ![VOLVO-V70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8e8cbc/32.png) [@VOLVO-V70](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VOLVO-V70)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 1:51am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/71 "2018-04-25T01:51:31Z")
> [@B.L.E](#): > > we need self mowing lawn mowers. They are here now . ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 10:51am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/72 "2018-04-25T10:51:58Z")
> [@B.L.E](#): > > Heck, we don’t need self driving cars, we need self mowing lawn mowers. You can already buy one; and it doesn’t even need to be steered. Once you program it, it works like an iRobot Roomba. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 2:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/73 "2018-04-25T14:32:11Z")
Perhaps we just need to stop being so obsessive about huge lawns. Many other countries most folks don’t even have lawns, and many grow flower gardens instead. ---
**Author:** ![MikeInNH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@MikeInNH](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MikeInNH)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/74 "2018-04-25T14:40:56Z")
> [@the\_same\_mountainbike](#): > > We had a company in NH (Cabletron) wherein the two founders eliminated seats in the meeting rooms and had the conference tables made to standing height. Gave new meaning to the word Stand-up meetings. > [@the\_same\_mountainbike](#): > > All I know is that Cabletron ended up defunct anyway due to technology obsolescence. That’s one opinion. I consulted to them once for a 6 month contract. They wanted to renew the contract and I declined. They were a very poorly run company. Management had no idea what they were doing. At times there were engineers sitting at their desks for weeks on end because there was nothing for them to do. And then there’s the security scandal in 2007. ---
**Author:** ![common-sense-answer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/common-sense-answer/32/716_2.png) [@common-sense-answer](https://community.cartalk.com/u/common-sense-answer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/75 "2018-04-25T15:28:34Z")
> [@the\_same\_mountainbike](#): > > Perhaps we just need to stop being so obsessive about huge lawns. Many other countries most folks don’t even have lawns, and many grow flower gardens instead. I’ve got a big lawn up north, but I certainly am not obsessive about it, not like my neighbor who’s got an automatic zoned & timed sprinkler system and that requires him to cut the grass at least once a week. I cut my non-watered (except by nature) grass about every 2 or 3 weeks or when I feel it’s embarrassing and then I leave a wide green-belt because I have lake and water frontage on three sides of my property. Many folks here in FL have no lawn. Instead, they have gardens or white crushed stone, or sea shells and lots of different kinds and shapes of palm trees and Jurassic Park looking vegetation. Where there is grass it’s usually that coarse, rough, Bermuda (I think it is) grass. Not much obsessing going on here, except on our golf course. However, as far as aspiring to live like anybody in any other country… well, that’s not my vision. I still like everybody to be able to do as they please. America, what a country! 🇺🇸 _ **CSA** _ 🌴🕶🌴 ---
**Author:** ![sgtrock21](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/sgtrock21/32/246_2.png) [@sgtrock21](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sgtrock21)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/76 "2018-04-25T15:59:40Z")
My obvious dumb answer to the original question was: If the vehicle is outside the best time of the day would be the daylight time. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/77 "2018-04-25T23:58:26Z")
> [@sgtrock21](#): > > If the vehicle is outside the best time of the day would be the daylight time. LOL, great answer! Thanks for the chuckle. ---
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/78 "2018-04-26T00:03:12Z")
> [@jtsanders](#): > > Having meetings was a problem at my old employer. People would come in late and information would be repeated twice or more times, making meetings painful for those that came on time. They started a new program. Meetings started on time. If someone was late, they missed whatever happened before they got there. Meetings also ended on time. If the meeting was scheduled for 30 minutes, it ended after 30 minutes. If there was unfinished business, another meeting was scheduled to address it. The new meeting system worked well. My biggest problems with “meetings” is that they are not really meetings but lectures from management. Nobody calls the meeting to order. No minutes are read, there is no discussion of old business or new business. Nobody makes motions or seconds them and then votes. It’s just another lecture from the management. ---
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 12:06am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/79 "2018-04-26T00:06:54Z")
> [@B.L.E](#): > > If only the prolific white tail deer population in our neighborhood grazed on grass instead of eating shrubbery! The deer that visit my yard eat the grass AND the shrubs. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371/80 "2018-04-26T00:09:23Z")
Back to Red Green… Didn’t he do a show where he Duck-taped a couple of reel mowers to the front of a FWD economy car? [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371.md?page=3) [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whats-the-best-time-of-day-to-check-oil/115371.md?page=5)