r/Cartalk • u/MrBlutine • Mar 01 '25
Safety Question Car tow experience. Is this normal?
Hi there, I was surprised to find my car got towed yesterday after being in front of my OWN garage for 15 minutes! Oh well lesson learned..: still feels a bit predatory though but I can get past it. So I went to pick it up last night around 6pm, paid my fines for being a criminal and then drove it home for the night and went to bed soon after.
Flash forward to this morning and I see my car in absolute agony ( see pics ). I have hit bumps so hard my heart dropped. I’ve hit bumps so hard I screwed up the alignment and had to get that fixed. So much construction in my area I hit bumps almost everyday. But I know I didn’t hit any bumps last night to this caliber. So im just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience? If so what do? And what is that white substance??? This is the oil pan right?
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u/Mikey74Evil Mar 03 '25
They fuked up your oilpan and realized they did and looks like they tried to seal it so nobody would notice. When was the last oil change? Could that be your drain plug? I don’t know but just asking. I just had a similar issue when I had an oil change done on my wife’s van a couple months prior and she was going away for the weekend and the oil was leaking out all over the place when she noticed in the morning to go out with her friend. Anyway the mechanic we took it too said that the last place probably over torqued something underneath and cracked the housing and when it got really cold over night when he was away it split wide open.