Valve Cover Leak

[Mk5_2.slow]

Hey guys, so I seem to have a valve cover leak on my 21 Supra 3.0 with 24k miles, I don’t drive the car often, nor do I beat on it much some pulls here and there. It’s also completely stock although I’m not sure if it was tuned in the past since I got it at 22k miles in July 2025, kind of surprised by this since the car's been driving fine as well maybe a little bit of a rough idle at startup but that's about it. I've attached a picture of where the leak seems to be originating from.

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[rottmore]

I don’t see a valve cover leak, but I do see that someone dripped oil on the intake manifold while doing an oil filter change.

 

[SJ-Ray]

Thats the Intake Manifold though, not Valve Cover...
Two things come to my mind.

1. Oilfilter housing is cracked and oil gets splashed up.
2. If an oil change was done, maybe while the oil filter got pulled out, oil got on the cover and they didn't bother do clean it up.

 

[rwense]

What @rottmore said, definitely just a couple drips while doing an oil change. Mine looks like that lol.

Also just a note, thats the intake manifold and not the valve cover.

 

[Habu]

The oil filter got a lil excited.

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