Oil leaking out of spark plugs on my mazda help?

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So I just got a 95 mazda protege. The guy who sold if says it needs a motor mount which I don't know what that is, but he says its not necessary. I drove it an hour back to my house, it was running fine, but on the temperature meter thing it was all the way on hot and when I arrived at my house, I noticed oil leaking out of the spark plugs. I drove it around another 15 miles after that and its not leaking again so far.

The temperature meter thing is normal now and I also put some oil in the car. I'm young and don't know much about cars so do I have a serious problem with the motor or something going on? If this is going to be expensive to fix I'm going to re sell. The check engine light is on too.
 
First off, your seller did not cheat you contrary to what someone here insinuates. It is a 16 year old car... when you buy a car like that, it should always be thoroughly checked before you put it on an hour drive.

Now, a "motor mount" is one of the rubbered, metal brackets that attach the engine to the chassis of the vehicle. And like the guy told you, they are usually not immediately "necessary". As for oil showing on your spark plugs, that is not a good thing; but it could be one simple thing: Your head cover gasket is failing or needs tightening. For your car, I think you'll need a 10 mm socket to tighten them. I had a 94 Mazda 626 and even a 1990 Accord that would do that. Remember, it's an older engine at this point.

Next time you add oil, I suggest you upgrade to a thicker viscosity oil (20/50)... that will help slowing leak if the leakage persisted. I would not advise you to take this car on other frequent 1 hr trips before you have it checked or at least fix the "known" issue you reported here.

Now, the worse case scenario for oil showing at your spark plugs (assuming you meant the inner parts of the plugs) is that your engine cylinders which after a number of years of rough driving relatively widened up allowing oil to be pushed up around the pistons -- in which case such a cylinder(s) would terribly misfire.

Your engine light is on for a reason. The computer is telling you something ain't right. Many a times, if there was a previous fault that was fixed, there computer will not recognize that the issue was fixed and will keep displaying the warning. To find out if it's a previously attended to warning: place your key in your ignition and turn it to ON position (do not start), then turn your head lights on... while your head lights are on, go ahead and disconnect the negative pole of your battery (or both) -- leave it disconnected for 10 minutes... Then reconnect it. Then go ahead and start your engine. If it was a previously fixed problem, the engine light should go away. If not, then of course, something is wrong!

Hope this helps... OK, I wish you good luck!
 
The oil in the spark plug sockets is not a big problem, its a very cheap thing to fix if you really think its necessary(which its not). I posted a video on how to fix it in my sources.

The check engine light is also easy to find the problem, since its obd 2. Take the car to an autoparts store(like autozone) and ask them to scan the codes. Write down the codes and google it at home, you can find out all of the information about fixing it either from google or youtube.com

The first link below is for the spark plug oil problem
The second link is for the check engine light
 
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