I agree with you JT and what I said is consistent with your comment. However, if you look at the other side of the dipstick, there are cross hatches or "X's" engraved in the dipstick to help hold the oil there for checking. The "full" ridge or top bar is in the middle of the cross hatches. I have never seen a dipstick (automotive, motorcycle, lawnmower, etc) where the full level was other than the top of the cross hatches. BRP puts it in the middle of the cross hatches. I'm just considering that for someone used to looking at the top of the cross hatches as being "full", they could end up overfilling it. If they didn't read the manual carefully and see the proper "full" ridge or top bar as you have pointed out.
Just trying to find a way to explain and caution about overfilling. I just checked my level totally cold and not running and as Scotty said, it's not even on the dipstick. And that's screwed in tight. So for the originator of this thread to get a cold reading touching the bottom of the dipstick with the dipstick not screwed in, my fear is that it's overfilled. I'm grasping at straws to explain how it could be overfilled yet he thinks it is filled correctly. Maybe there are better explanations and many have been suggested in numerous threads. I'm just offering one more, perhaps unlikely, that I haven't seen mentioned before.
