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Hello.Does anyone have advice for this situation please? Yesterday I opened the hood and found traces of engine oil, so something is apparently leaking.I did not see the obvious reason. What are the options?

A little more information would be helpful.
Where is the oil ?? maybe a picture ????

Engine type? Year? Leak location?

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Hello.Does anyone have advice for this situation please? Yesterday I opened the hood and found traces of engine oil, so something is apparently leaking.I did not see the obvious reason. What are the options?
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Get rid of it....

kkkx5's answer, brutal but true, if you can't find the leak  then you'll have to pay someone to find it and probably fix it. Could all get very expensive.

Hi

As henrym3 said its worth at least trying to investigate where oil is coming from, and it's worth checking the engine oil level to make sure it's not below the minimum or poss over full which can also cause probs.

You haven't given us much to work on or said whether the car is a petrol or diesel version. With a diesel car the fuel is more of an oily consistency than petrol and could it be that depending on where the leak is?

If it's a petrol car have you checked its definitely engine oil and not any other fluids. I.e transmission fluid or power steering fluid? 

So it's probably worth then wiping the area clean first and any oil covered areas and take it for a short drive and then seeing if leaking or not which will help establish is this a long term build up or a sudden change and it's losing engine oil from somewhere, I.e a gasket maybe.

If the oil Is dripping below, then worth again cleaning the area affect and placing some clean cardboard underneath to see if drips overnight as that should give you a better idea of where the leak is coming from, well that's the idea anyhow.

Once you have an idea of where it's from then there may be simple or fairly cheap solution, or it maybe a case it's more involved to fix.

Graeme