CSL Oil Level

[ATB88]

I bent my dipstick tube to hell when installing my TMS airbox. It was the one thing I didn't give proper thought to before install and just kinda winged it. Regrets. I plan on replacing it with a proper CSL dipstick, but until then I have a couple questions:

1. Mangled and bent downward as it is, is it still fully capable of accurately reading my oil level? Or is it possible that it's bent so much that the end is entering the oil pan at the wrong angle which would give an incorrect reading and I shouldn't trust it?

2. I've heard that real CSLs can check oil level via OBC in the gauge cluster. Is this enabled by just having the CSL binary on my MSS54HP or do I need to code it to my cluster? Or does the CSL have its own special cluster and mine won't have this capability (build date 01/2002)

Thanks!

[Obioban]

1. depends how mangled it is

2. If you’re doing the csl ecu load, you can code on the oil level display in the cluster.... though I don’t find it that accurate.

[2004LSB]

When I swapped my factory airbox to the Karbonius CSL replica, I didn't even need to bend the stock dipstick. I just swung it about 100 - 120 degrees counter clockwise and zip tied it down to the black electrical housing thing where the stock MAF comes out from. No leaks and the oil readings are just as accurate.

[heinzboehmer]

I installed my airbox without bending thr dipstick. I just took it out of the oil pan and routed it around everything so that there wasn't any interference. So if you want to keep an easily accessible dipstick you could get another regular one and do this instead of the CSL part.

The oil level requires having the CSL binary on your DME (which I'm pretty sure you already have) and coding the cluster with NCSExpert. However, you need a later model cluster for this to work (I want to say 23h+ but I'm not entirely sure).