nEoMuGen

I need to verify if the dent is a design or that I screw up...

I don't remember hitting anything that bottoms out the car, but there is this very unique shaped dent concaved in the oil pan.

Anyone paid attention to their oil pan? Is it suppose to be all flat?

fla-tls

Can you post a pic? (or describe the location of the dent better?)

If it's the bottom, the bottom of the oil pan should be flat.

nayyarn

The pan should be flat on the bottom, this I am certain of. I change my own oil, so I know this, it curves on both sides a little. Are you lowered? Because of you are, you got me worried now too. I recently lowered my TL also, but I am very carful to look out for pot holes or debris. Post a pic if you can.

Severin

My '00 has the same dent in the oil pan. It's a very odd thing to look at; like someone held an iron pipe between both hands and pushed it up into the bottom of the pan.
I'll try and post a pic later.

Chemmech

Is your oil pan made of cast aluminum?

1fasttl

You have a cast aluminum oil pan. If anything solid where to hit the pan it would break or crack. So your prably looking at the shape of the pan and the way it was formed.