jimbo123

Anyone has oil leak problem?? It is very miner. I found it on the 1st oil change.

jimbo123

FckFiat

monitor it for now I guess. Doesn't look like its more than a few drops during an interval. I'm sure thats a real bitch and time consuming repair even under warranty

dzionny_dzionassi

Looks like rear main seal leaking.. Easy to check with borescope.

jimbo123

dealer mechanic said it is inspection oil. They clean it up and we wait for next oil change to see if there is oil there. monitoring it now.

dzionny_dzionassi

So oil coming from rear main seal is called "inspection oil". Interesting

FckFiat

thats when the dealer doesn't want to perform warranty work.

Carlson

When I worked for Honda, we had a lot of this on new cars. They put a coating on the engine for storage purposes and once it’s in the car it “melts” off when the engine is hot. This looks like an oil leak. By the next service it’s no longer there. Most of the time it looks like a rear main leak bc all of that coating is trapped in between the engine/trans

Tesla1856

Agreed. I think common in Honda's since it happened to both my Accords . A lot of work and very expensive to fix.
However, they were over 10 years old before they leaked a drop ... not at year-1 and first oil-change.

But OP ... be sure that is what it is. The Acura plant builders can be messy with the first fill of various fluids (like they don't like using funnels or rags or something). But even then, doesn't seem right for it to end up here if not near a fill-hole.

djhtsx

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I had this issue with my tsx but I believe there was a dealer fix for this, right?

Nexx

so the dealerships wants to skip out on warranty money? you do realize dealerships get paid to fix things under manufacturers warranty right?

leomio2.0

Yes. It's been well documented from just about every manufacturer that getting warranty work can be quite cumbersome unless it's a glaring or known issue (and even then it can be a PITA). Manufacturers pay minimally, especially on the labor side. Dealers and techs alike hate warranty work because, unless the shop is dead, they're usually losing money when compared to actual paying customers.

fiatlux

Funny how my dealership wouldn’t fix my issues until a TSB was issued. I guess they didn’t want that sweet warranty money

Tesla1856

Not with all issues, and not with common maintenance items, but during our 6-year ownership of the MDX, I found it was easier to get:
a. Issues reported (and they take me seriously)
b. Report an obviously warranty-covered item

... if I printed the related TSB. Like, once they knew it was a "real problem" they performed to TSB. Otherwise, they weren't always so sure where to start. It was harder at first when this "all new model" was new and not many MDX sold or related TSB yet.

And it really depends on the Service Advisor.