I have a 2008 Acura RDX with 155000 miles on it. Just went to check my oil soon as I pulled the dipstick out and cleaned it off I could smell gasoline. What could be causing that?

 

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If you really do have gas getting mixed with oil, it could be a sign of worn piston rings or running too rich (which itself could be caused by a number of issues...bad injector, misfiring, etc). But, it could also just be that you take way too many short trips without letting the car reach normal operating temperature.

 

When is the last time you changed your oil? Oil is always going to contain “some” blow by (i.e. gasoline) as piston rings never perfectly seal. This will get worse as the miles go up. But this is why we change our oil in the 1st place which is to get rid of dirty contaminated oil. I am about to hit 300k. The only engine work I have done is adjust the valves, change the plugs, and fix the turbo actuator issue (twice).

 

I just changed it. I was over by 1500 miles

 

It definitely doesn't smell as bad. So that could have been the issue. That was the first time I ever went over on the miles