Thelongblueone

@J.R. Thankyou for all your advice mate, its appreciated, as you stated it was indeed a drain hole (albeit a suspicious looking one) but the source of the leak is a suspected main rear seal, and like you say a couple drops of oil a day is nothing too serious so ill keep an eye on it, and when the clutch is due ill get the seal done at the same time. Otherwise, all is groovy and i can relax

I had to park in on a kerb to get underneath, wasn't all that much room & i don't trust the old jack i have, car is booked in for inspection at a vw specialist near me so hopefully get a bit more clarity on whats going on under there. My issue will be if it is indeed damage that was there prior to sale it definitely should have been picked up on by the sales garage as they fully inspected & serviced the car including an oil change, it would be hard not to notice it on a ramp. Thankyou for your advice though, with the amount i spent buying the damn thing i was hoping it would be a solid car i could just run, look after and keep me going for a good few years.

Id like to add the car has a smidge under 60k on the clock so its not been to the moon and back.

Thanks bud, i had an injector let go on the car recently after a month of ownership and 500 miles and the garage contributed what they would cost it at to replace (as they are about 60 miles from me) but they were a bit funny with me, im just hesitant to go back with another problem in case i get told to do one. I think i have another month and a half through trading standards/consumer rights act.

Thanks for the replies guys, to further my original post, it only seems to weep/slow drip oil after its been driven/oil is hot, i managed to get some better pictures, is this the aforementioned weep hole? Also can confirm i was being an idiot, its not the gbox engine mating its under the block next to the sump, there does seem to be more oil than id expect to be around the area?

Hi all, i bought my 63 plate vrs in feb from a car dealer, since had one or two issues with the vehicle which have been sorted but over the last week as its stopped p***ing it down, i noticed a small damp patch where the front of the car was parked, stuck my head under and the lower engine mount looked wet with oil, so after squeezing under the car today i found what looks like a good chunk missing from the gbox mating face, and tiny bits of what seems to be jb weld (or similar) , now the gasket sits proud of this damage so you would assume it would be damaged also, unless this was a bodge job where the gasket was swapped and putty'd up so the garage could sell it on (speculation at this point). Does anyone have any ideas on where i stand with the garage? as if they had inspected the car thoroughly as they claimed this definitely would have been visible?

Top banana, there was a fair bit of dirt that came out when i drained it, ill pull the covers off all the doors and give them all a clean out to make sure then, thanks for the advice!

Hi all, i have seen a few other posts similar to this but im not sure if the problem is quite the same, the passenger side rear door skin was holding a large amount of water after heavy rain the past few days, im not sure where the water gets in, -would it be the top of the door or the felt window seal/scraper? - would it be best to pull the door card off and check inside then change all seals on that door? - whats the best place to get those seals? Any help would be appreciated.