I noticed during my last oil change that the left side of my car was dropping trace amounts of oil on the floor. Its not much at all, almost like a few drops at most if the car was sitting for a couple days.

Last night (after I took these pics) I took some simple green and degreased the motor to see if this might just be some residual oil from checking it with that awful dipstick we have. At any rate, I cant seem to tell where this might be coming from. Does anyone have any ideas? It looks like its dripping off the A/C condenser.

edit... Motor has 45K on it and I cant see anything leaking from the top.

 

Minor update. Drove the car yesterday after cleaning the engine, got on it a bit and let it sit in the garage last night without the cover on it. It sat for about 10 hours and nothing has dropped to the ground. I wonder if maybe some oil is being pushed out of the dipsitck...

What a PITA...

 

Keep an eye on it. May be Cgeck every 3 weeks.

 

update... I dont have an oil leak it was all residual oil coming from that crappy dipstick we have. All is well!

 

What exactly is wrong with the dipstick? I keep reading about trouble with it, but I haven't figured out what's causing the problem.

I can't imagine how mine could work any better than it does. Pull it out, read it, put it back in.

 

Because you have an HR, which has the best dipstick design I've seen in a long time. Those with the DE series motors have an absolutely horrific dipstick design that is literally impossible to pull a "true" reading off of...

 

Wow, glad I'm not the only one. If the dip stick isnt snug in it shoots oil out. Only when you floor it. Pulled up to a taco bell drive thru and smoke was coming from the bottom. The smell was awful but the Tacos were awesome.