Okay so I drove to work just fine this morning. I was there for 8 hours, I went out to start my car and it started running and sounding a little rough. I shut the car off, grab some paper towels from my trunk and checked my oil. I'm definitely in need of an oil change(few hundred miles over). The oil level when I FIRST pulled the dipstick out(before I wiped it off) was about 8-9 inches from the tip that went into the oil pan. I've never noticed that happen before. Anyway wiped the dipstick off as normal and the level was fine. I restarted the car and it ran fine. This happened a few days ago as well. Same situation drove to work, came out 8 hours later. Ran rough for a few seconds, I shut it off and restarted it and it ran fine. Now I'm curious why this is happening because it doesn't happen when I go to leave in the morning when the car has been sitting for 12+ hours. This has happened twice in the last 2 weeks or so.

Note: It's not running rough that its shaking the car or anything, its just an audible sound. Almost like its going to shut off from lack of fuel. I doubt its the fuel filter because it was changed last time the oil was done. Also there's no indication that my fuel pump is going bad. So I'm stumped.

Maybe because I'm in need of an oil change? It's going in this week, I would do it myself but my apartment threatened to have my car towed last time.

 

usually (as long as its not 10k over and running on 3.5qts) going over on an oil change a couple hundred or even a thousand wont make the car run bad. id first start by checking for codes than move to the fuel pressure

 

^^^^ yes, what BC said.