How much oil do you fill m113 s500?/messed up something

[Petrol Pete]

Is the OPs car prone to the transmission cooler leaking?

or diesel getting into the oil?

It's a V8 petrol engine so I should bloody hope not !...but reading the OP's post's it would seem anything is possible. I do hope we get it sorted.

 

[E55BOF]

The two little moulding marks (circles) on the dipstick mean nothing at all; the oil level should be somewhere along the thin part of the red plastic, between the MAX(imum) and MIN(imum) letters on the thicker ends. Even with a cold engine, filling it to just below the MAX is not overfilling it.

 

[grober]

Symptoms would appear to fit with an engine with a blocked crankcase breather or over filled with oil--- and since this happened after your top up an overfill is possible- the non MB dipstick may be wrongly calibrated for your engine- the garage may have useD their own dipstick tool or used the volume drained out = volume in method when changing the oil?
As advised either do a complete drain and refill with the correct volume adding the last 2 litres 500ml at a time and checking the dipstick as you go
or
drain off the same amount as you added and check dipstick level again.

 

[pmcgsmurf]

Still no answer to how much oil was added?

 

[E55BOF]

My first thought was an engine breather, but how could oil be running down the plug leads below the coils, yet there's no oil on the top end above the coils?