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I spotted a small drop of oil on the garage floor a minute ago. Wiped it with my finger and it’s oil, no smell. No color. Moved the car out, took a look underneath drivers side with flashlight.....Same side exhaust clamp has oil on it, drippings, only underneath, not on top. So I start looking for a source. Can’t find a damn thing. Then I notice rear bumper leading edge same side is coated with it, as is entire wheel well liner. Engine is clean, usual leaky powersteering reservoirs o-ring excepted, nothing dripping. Just a wheel well liner full of oil. Brake caliper hard line clean, wheel itself and tire clean.
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Jacking up to remove wheel in a sec. Anyone have thoughts!?
Nothing. Wheel arch liner only. Strut is pristine clean, found a TINY seep on side of case, at gasket/cover above header pipe 1? RMS not oily or dirty.
Maybe remove belly pans next to inspect trans visually and any oil lines.
My porsche tech said no worries after seeing pic. Looked everywhere else topside and nothing. Oil lines up in wheel arch clean.
Maybe I ran over something with that rear wheel? There was "white paste" or some sort in addition to the oil up in the arch and leading edge of bumper.
Mystery continues. Inputs are appreciated.....car is a C4, and my full Fabspeed setup is not loud enough...also a mystery.
Any oil in tread grooves? No smell - maybe cooking oil from a spill you drove through?
Really weird. Seemed like, power steering or brake fluid. Zero smell or color. I was thinking maybe I ran over a caulk tube or something.......idk. No apparent leaks still after washing most of the oil spray off the rear drivers wheel opening. Will reexamine tomorrow AM.
Weird it's only on the back- did you back into a parking spot last time you drove the car? From your description maybe you backed into a oil puddle and it then got flung around everywhere when you drove home?
The white “paste” that I washed off is not a chemical that I can tell. No smell, not sticky or oily, water washed it off. I guess I hit a birthday cake.....so weird. The oil is definitely oil though. Next step is remove that stuff from my paint.....suggestions for safe degreaser that I can also clean
my sump cover with?
Last week, I pulled into my garage and had an gawdawful fuel smell. I got panicky! Cripes what now?.... It was raining, and when I went around the car, I saw the rainbow refractions in my driveway... man I musta been leaking something bad...... but I could not place the smell.... gasoline... sort of... oily... sort of...... It must have been diesel. I put a piece of cardboard under the car to catch anything else... dry next day... I musta drove through a heck of a puddle of the stuff. It slowly dissipated after a few days but .... not my car. Sheesh.
Last week, I pulled into my garage and had an gawdawful fuel smell. I got panicky! Cripes what now?.... It was raining, and when I went around the car, I saw the rainbow refractions in my driveway... man I musta been leaking something bad...... but I could not place the smell.... gasoline... sort of... oily... sort of...... It must have been diesel. I put a piece of cardboard under the car to catch anything else... dry next day... I musta drove through a heck of a puddle of the stuff. It slowly dissipated after a few days but .... not my car. Sheesh.
Peace
Bruce in Philly
The UPS and USPS delivery folks have been known to leak oil on my driveway.
01-05-2020, 05:22 PM
Houston we have a problem.....
