Every morning when I go out to my garage to leave for school, there is a tiny drop of oil underneath my car about the size of a dime. I clean it up and the next day the same thing. I jacked it up and checked the plug and it was tight, I don't have a crack in the pan either. I couldn't really determine where the drip was coming from. Anybody have any suggestions?

I took it to where I had it changed and they couldn't find anywhere either. I'm stumped. I know it's probly not a big deal but it's getting kind of annoying.

 

put the car on jack stands, clean up all the greasy spots, clean the garage floor and place a piece of clean newspaper over it, drive the car like usual, park it right under the newspaper and inspect next day

 

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When you say inspect, do you mean check the newspaper and see if I can tell where the drip is coming from? Cuz I've done it before but I couldn't really tell, I just didn't use newspaper. I wouldn't think that using newspaper would make any difference. But I'll try your suggestion. Thanx.

 

He means use the newspaper to catch the spot like you said, yes. But you also will need to clean up the engine so you can spot where the leak is coming from afterwards. I don't know about your engine, but mine is dirty as ****. Use some Simple Green or something similar, and clean off the engine in the entire area you suspect the leak is coming from. Drive it as he said, and park and then inspect the engine.

With a clean engine, it will likely be a lot easier to spot where the oil leak is coming from.

 

If its a tiny drop on the driver side every day i wanna say its a oil seal because i had the same problem. I wanna say its the balancer shaft seal bc that the seal they had a recall on.