Factory-manual answers for your exact car
Paste a VIN. Hoodwise pins your exact engine, reads the service manual written for it, and answers with the page it came from. If a number isn't printed there, you don't get a number.
Forums guess. The parts counter guesses. Somebody's cousin swears by a number.
The right answer is already in your car's manual. It's one line, somewhere in 809 pages§Santa Fe DM (2016–2018) owner's manual.
Found it. Recommended lubricants and capacities, one line for your engine.
A 2016 Santa Fe came with petrol and diesel engines, and its manual lists them one line apart. Hoodwise pins the engine from your VIN or registration card first, and only then reads the line.
- Petrol
- API Service SM, ILSAC GF-4 or above · ACEA A5 (or above)
- Diesel
- ACEA C3 or C2 with DPF · ACEA B4 without
Read the Theta II 2.4 petrol line instead and the engine is 1.5 litres§6.3 l − 4.8 l, both from Santa Fe DM (2016–2018) owner's manual, p.792 (8-7) short.
Between F and L.
Car level, engine warm then off for about five minutes, dipstick wiped and pushed fully home.
p.711§Santa Fe DM (2016–2018) owner's manual, p.711 (7-39)
6.3 litres back in.
Diesel engine, drain and refill. ACEA C3 or C2 if the car has a particulate filter.
p.792§Santa Fe DM (2016–2018) owner's manual, p.792 (8-7)
809 pages. One line is yours.
Hoodwise reads the whole manual, so you only have to read the line for your engine.
809 pages§Santa Fe DM (2016–2018) owner's manual
World manufacturer code · KBA register
manufacturer codes it can name from the first three characters alone.
factory patterns distilled from 16,044,159§Spain DGT registrations 2015–2024, reduced to serial-free factory patterns real registrations. Serials are thrown away.
right on fuel when it names it from a European VIN. It names it for 68.7%§Hoodwise VIN scale eval · 37,218 EU listings (AutoScout24) · seller-typed truth, so a lower bound of cars and asks you about the rest.
A 4.0 V8 common-rail diesel you can turn in your hands. Drag to rotate it, scroll to take it apart, then pick a part: Hoodwise opens a chat with the question drivers ask about it.
| Hoodwise | Fig. EM-1 | Scale NTS |
| Engine assembly · 4.0 V8 common-rail diesel | Illustrative | |
| Modelled in Blender · not a factory drawing | ||
Ask the factory manual, in Albanian or English.
Hoodwise reads the question however it's typed, typos and all, and asks back when the car is unclear. Parts links go to EU shops, and the registration card in your glovebox is enough to identify the car.
- Shqip · English
- EU parts shops
- VIN optional
- Asks before it guesses
- Sharpness✓ pass
- Brightness✓ pass
- Glare✓ pass
- Fill✓ pass
- Printed text✓ pass
The camera checks five things in your browser as you aim: sharpness, brightness, glare, fill and printed text. The shutter arms only when all five pass twice in a row, and nothing leaves your phone before that.
- ✓Reads the vehicle only: VIN, model, first registration, fuel, engine size, power.
- ✕Never reads the owner's name, personal number, address or plate.
- ✓The photo is downscaled, stripped of location data and discarded after reading.
How much oil does my 2016 Santa Fe diesel take?
Your 2.0 diesel takes 6.3 l of engine oil on a drain and refill. Use ACEA C3 or C2 if it has a DPF.
4.8 l was dropped from the draft: that's the petrol Theta II row.
- ✓2.0 dieselyour car · registration card
- ✓6.3 lp.792 · diesel engine row
- ✓ACEA C3p.792 · with DPF
- ✕4.8 lp.792 · petrol row, not this engine
Every digit string in an answer has to appear in a source, your question or your car. If it can't be fixed in one pass, the answer is refused. Figures from p.792§Santa Fe DM (2016–2018) owner's manual, p.792 (8-7).
- 01
Pin the car
From the VIN, the registration card or your garage. No VIN means no filter, never a substitute car.
- 02
Understand
A model reads the question in Albanian or English and works out the part, the car, the engine and what's missing.
- 03
Ask before guessing
If the engine or fuel is unclear, you get one question back, with answers you can tap.
- 04
Read the page
Spec rows plus search over your car's manual. Pages come back whole, so a table row never loses its header.
- 05
Draft
Manual first. The web only for what the manual doesn't print, and it's labelled as the web.
- 06
Verify
A second model checks every figure, grade and code against the pages, for this exact engine and fuel.
- 07
Shop
Search links for the exact item at EU parts shops. Dead shops are dropped before you see them.
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- manuals
- 125§Hoodwise library, counted 27 Sep 2026
- pages read
- 30,486§Hoodwise library, counted 27 Sep 2026
- passages indexed
- 131,321§Hoodwise library, counted 27 Sep 2026
- diagrams
- 1,355§Hoodwise library, counted 27 Sep 2026
