Just topped it up and put too much in. It's above the max level now
what should I do?

How much over? If a little should be ok.
Could drain it. If you don't have the proper draining tool get a tube (hose pipe) and cut it to a shorter lenght. Put it in the oil top up hole. Then put your finger over the end and take it out. Take finger off the end to let the oil out of the tube. Make sure you empty into a container.
Obviously use a bit of tube that is dry and has no liquid in it.

that's a good idea. Not sure if I have any tubing though

Yeah it's a fair amount over the max mark- I was using the dipstick to get some out then wiping it on a rag but it was taking ages and hardly removing any

I over filled mine accidentally. Not had any problems.

my dad overfilled his vauxhaull once and there were big plumes of black smoke coming out the back

hopefully this wont happen, going to go and try and take some more out then give it a drive and see what happens

You should be fine fella, I've been driving it about two months with extra oil :P

After replacing the oil on my bike few months ago, i forgot to put the dipstick back in and started up the engine... now that was a mess

just bare in mind i just took off an inlet off a duratec lump and the thing was covered in oil on the inside and i was like errmmmm this can't be good turns out the owner or who ever changed the oil put too much in and over flooded the inlet.

thick with grease!

There was oil on my cossie inlet when i opened it up, was told it's normal to have a bit of oil coming in, so i can imagine it wil be the same with the standard inlet?

yeah a little bit it's from the crankcase apparently something to do with ventilation.

a little is normal but like thick glupey stuff no normal for a low milage car that's likely to have been overfilled with oil.

this inlet i had was caked in it at the bottom you could see the difference of this stuff and the carbon deposits.

how hard is it to remove the inlet? might do that in a few weeks and clean it if there is any

ok cheers for the help guys, will drive it and see what it's like

To much oil can be as bad as to little, if its only just over the max mark dont worry to much, but if its well over drain some out, I have seen some cars not start because the owner has overfilled the engine with oil and locked the hydraulic followers up, (solid on st) and also a renault diesel that would not turn off and rev high cos it was running on the engine oil after it was turned off.