If you've handled plenty of DIY jobs on your car, changing the oil seems simple enough. Still, it's easy to overdo it and wind up with too much in the crankcase. If you change your oil while parked on ...

A contributor to CarBuzz since April 2025, Ben also was a finalist in The Intercooler Young Writer Compition in 2021, has done a placement with AutoCar, and runs his own independant automotive blog.

Along with requirements for the kind and weight of the oil they use, vehicle engines also have a set amount of oil they need, which varies by size. I reckon we're all aware of what happens to an ...

When you put too much oil in an engine, it increases the pressure in the crankcase. This pressure rise might be enough to rupture the oil seal at your output shaft if it weren’t for the fact that your ...

Overfilling engine oil might sound harmless compared to running low, but mechanics are increasingly warning that it can quietly damage modern performance engines. In today’s tightly engineered ...