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[williams]

Hello, what do you use to catch oil drips on your driveway?? Thanks

[willava182]

An oil drip tray haha!

 

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[coopdog]

piece of cardboard? :L

[Tamworthbay]

I use a couple of old rubber car mats, but that's for the MX5, the mini lives in the garage and doesn't leak.

[Domneon]

I use a couple of old rubber car mats, but that's for the MX5, the mini lives in the garage and doesn't leak.

 

Can't have any oil in it then!

[Tamworthbay]

I use a couple of old rubber car mats, but that's for the MX5, the mini lives in the garage and doesn't leak.

 
Can't have any oil in it then!

I think its the only one I ever had that is oil tight! I was amazed when I got it that it didn't leak, very very occasionally it will do a single drop but probably about once a year. All my others have marked their territory in no time.

[alex-95]

cardboard for me or a photo developing tray.

[pusb]

Big piece of cardboard. However it only occasionally gets used as I can predict when its going to leak.

 

Mine only seems to leak if I've been on a long or fast drive in it, just going around town it seems to be able to hold it.

Edited by pusb, 13 August 2014 - 06:11 PM.

[Miniminx71]

Roasting tin. Ideal.

[surfblue]

At 51 mine is a little incontinent, A gearbox swap and lots of new gaskets last winter reduced its dribbling by about 50% but the lid of a kerbside recycling box under the sump catches most of it.

[Richie83]

Cardboard over a small price of carpet underlay I had hanging around.

[williams]

Thanks, that gives me some good ideas.

[Badboytunes]

If outside, I would use rubber mats. However if its windy they ( and a tin or lid of sorts ) may blow away. Ours leaks a bit and as it lives in a garage I have out a big bit of cardboard down and a cat litter tray

[Dan]

  A cement mixing spot.  Its as big as the engine bay and doesn't blow around.

[lsto]

I was using a baby food jar earlier this year when my selector seal went...

Since then its been nice and dry (although in the last 12 months its had both driveshaft seals, a head set and 2 selector seals)

Before that I had an old piece of carpet as it doesn't blow away like card and you can roll it up and throw it in the back and it don't leave marks because it absorbs oil again unlike card.