Neighbours car leaking oil

[Ham_and_Jam]

Just wondering best course of action.

Neighbours car is leaking oil onto the road when parked overnight. It’s been leaving oil puddles now for approximately 4-5 months.

The road is a light concrete, so it looks st. Someone, not sure if the owner, is frequently putting a cat litter type powder on the oil, so they are aware.

I haven’t really pursued it because I’m a live and let live kind of guy, but it’s been months now so plenty of time to put right.

I’m thinking of just mentioning it to them as a throw away comment when I bump into them, but don’t think it will make any difference.

Am I being over zealous, or would this annoy you?

[toasty]

Does it look like a rabbit?

[shtu]

Well, this will get replies ranging from,

Buy them a lovely bottle of wine and pay to have it repaired for them.
to
Harrass every service that will listen until it is taken away and crushed.

Sit back and enjoy.

[normalbloke]

Move. Standard PH response…

[_Rodders_]

When my neighbours car started leaking oil I offered to put it on my ramps and have a look.

The 2 most likely things are oil filter and sump plug so a good chance it's an easy fix.

[Nickp82]

toasty said:

Does it look like a rabbit?

[Ham_and_Jam]

Nickp82 said:

toasty said:

Does it look like a rabbit?

I m obviously not in with the cool kids.

[Super Sonic]

Put a tray onderneath, collect it up, then when you have five litres, offer to sell it to him "slightly used, half price"

[gt40steve]

Ham_and_Jam said:

Nickp82 said:

toasty said:

Does it look like a rabbit?

I m obviously not in with the cool kids.

Atleast you know that the bridges are intact and in our hands !

[Fat Old Sun]

https://www.gov.uk/report-road-spillage


Report car oil leaks on public roads immediately to your local council's highways department or via the GOV.UK "Report a road spillage" service to prevent accidents and environmental damage.

[OhHamburgers]

When my mums car shat itself and spewed oil all over the road I swept it with builders sand and put signs up saying slippy be careful. No idea if that’s the right thing but it’s all I could think of at short notice. Apologies went round the neighbours and all were okay given they’d watched me push the frigging thing up the road to avoid more spillages. I’d always suggest starting polite with neighbours as regardless who’s right or wrong, nobody wants to live with enemies

[Mr Tidy]

Fat Old Sun said:

https://www.gov.uk/report-road-spillage


Report car oil leaks on public roads immediately to your local council's highways department or via the GOV.UK "Report a road spillage" service to prevent accidents and environmental damage.

And then spend the rest of your life waiting for something to get done about it!

[POIDH]

_Rodders_ said:

When my neighbours car started leaking oil I offered to put it on my ramps and have a look.

The 2 most likely things are oil filter and sump plug so a good chance it's an easy fix.

And if it's not easy but the neighbour now thinks you're going to fix it....?

[dontlookdown]

Nickp82 said:

toasty said:

Does it look like a rabbit?

Be very careful, OP, your neighbour is almost certainly growing homunculi in their garden;)

[LivLL]

I'm more intrigued about you living on a road made from concrete rather than tarmac. Sounds fancy.

Anyway, if it's bother you just talk to them. A simple "that oil leak looks nasty, have you had it looked at yet" is a good starter.

I had an old Audi A4 with a leaky oil pressure switch years ago, fixed that with a pattern part which lasted a week before acting like the exon valdez. A neighbor kindly offered me some brick acid to clean the block paving once I got it sorted which I though was a nice approach as it look a right mess in the communcal carpark.

Edited by LivLL on Wednesday 4th March 08:25

[ClaphamBoxS]

dontlookdown said:

Nickp82 said:

toasty said:

Does it look like a rabbit?

Be very careful, OP, your neighbour is almost certainly growing homunculi in their garden;)

Does he look like Father Christmas? and is it a remote controlled car?

[andy43]

Mr Tidy said:

Fat Old Sun said:

https://www.gov.uk/report-road-spillage


Report car oil leaks on public roads immediately to your local council's highways department or via the GOV.UK "Report a road spillage" service to prevent accidents and environmental damage.

And then spend the rest of your life waiting for something to get done about it!

Nah that’s an easy win for the council coffee cup down the drain department.
They’ll be all over it.

[Megaflow]

Fat Old Sun said:

https://www.gov.uk/report-road-spillage


Report car oil leaks on public roads immediately to your local council's highways department or via the GOV.UK "Report a road spillage" service to prevent accidents and environmental damage.

Can you report such a thing on Fix My Street? Council's seem really hot on monitoring Fix My Street.

[Red9zero]

Megaflow said:

Fat Old Sun said:

https://www.gov.uk/report-road-spillage


Report car oil leaks on public roads immediately to your local council's highways department or via the GOV.UK "Report a road spillage" service to prevent accidents and environmental damage.

Can you report such a thing on Fix My Street? Council's seem really hot on monitoring Fix My Street.

Our council said there was no problem when I reported a trail of oil our neighbour left after hitting a central reservation and continuing on her way home. When I saw her the next morning she said she didn't realise she had hit anything, so probably drunk as usual, and just drove home, probably a good 1/4 of a mile. She somehow managed to punch a hole in the bottom of the engine and continue on her way with oil pouring out, then park in front of her garage, leaving the car to completely empty itself of oil over the next day or so. The road had a rainbow sheen over it for the next week whenever it rained, but the council thought it was ok.

[Riley Blue]

A spill kit is what's needed; here's a cheap one: https://hermeq.com/uk/en/spill-kit-oil-fuel.html