Q: Oil filter
I saw a very very small spot of oil on my oil filter after I tightened the oil filter as tight as I could possibly tighten it by hand... I can not see oil coming from anywhere except coming down the oil filter what could this be from?
My car has 131100 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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