Originally Posted by davidyan

as long as your car is on level ground, being at the 1st dot is still pretty low even if you havent waited 10 min.

Follow the manual procedure and if it still is at the bottom dot, you're about 1 quart off. start with 3/4 and then top off the remaining 1/4 as needed. Make sure not to overfill it. Overfilling can damage the engine.