In the past few days, I've noticed a little oil on the ground where I park...not enough to lose any oil or make the oil light come on. But it's somewhere on the front (two drops on the cardboard i have placed under the car overnight...one on the front right and another on the front left).

Can someone give me any advice on where this is coming from? I brought it to a local shop and they were not able to find the source.

Thanks.

 

Oh, the car has only 40k miles on it.

 

I have an important and very critical to this issue question ...





Where in sam hill did you get a 93 ES with only 40k on it????

 

HAAHHAHAHHA x2


To OP, have you checked your valve cover gaskets? Look down the front of the engine and if you see oil running down, then it is probably the valve cover gaskets (which need to be replaced frequently on es300 for some reason). A little more difficult, but you may want to check the rear valve cover gasket also as the engine is tilted backward and this leaves a perfect escape route for oil. This one is very difficult to diagnose and very difficult to see. I recently replaced mine for the first time and saw a major difference in oil loss. I have a 95, but same concept

 

LOL! I purchased this car brand new for my mom in '94. She only drives within a 5-10 mile radius so she doesn't put on that many miles.

In fact, most of the miles are from me taking the car on long road trips.

 

wow that's a nice story and should be written down and put in the glovebox so it can be later related how valuable that car is based on nice treatment.
the 3vz-fe are leakers. have fun patching up the leaks. also, try to change the oil more frequently [about every 3 months OR 3000 miles [whichever comes first] since you're definetely in the severe category].