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Originally Posted by RobertFini
. . . but the oil is all over the front of the engine and those bits are at the rear. I will replace the oil filler cap, despite it not looking terrible, and see what effect that might have.
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If the oil leak is on the front of the motor, and the oil cap doesn't make a big difference, you may want to look at the oil filter housing. On my M272 that started leaking pretty badly, enough to make a mess down the front of the motor and in the belly pan under the car. The shop that diagnosed mine changed out the housing because the housing had a crack in it. I believe they said sometimes you can just replace the gasket. The housing wasn't too expensive but I imagine it's even cheaper if all you have to replace is the gasket. I want to say they mentioned changing out another seal as well during the repair (oil cooler, maybe?) but I can't say for sure; it was back in 2013 and they didn't write it down on the receipt, it was presented to me as kind of a "while we did this we also threw in this" type of thing.
Good luck!
-Chris