Originally Posted by x-trail

Hi,

I'd thought I'd follow up on my earlier post (see above).

As I mentioned, I was advised on a visual inspection that the gasket was either leaking or cracked. Just to fill you in on the visual, there was not jut a few drops of brown liquid but rather a very large brown stain below the black plastic engine cover.

When I returned for repairs, they told me it was the gasket of the valve cover and was a minor repair with no possible negative effects.

However, once they actually worked on the car they told me that there was no leak or crack and that the "oil" was probably just the anti-rust treatment which had blown around from the fan!. I did not have the car anti-rust treated and also at the time of purchase, the car had already 200 odd kms on it (believe it was traded from one dealer to another to meet our delivery date) and when we looked at the engine then there was abolutely no oil on the engine.

Anyway, the vehicle is "repaired" and the engine cleaned and we shall see if this problem reoccurs.

x-trail