Oil Leak

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <970111131859_1656960492@emout04.mail.aol.com> Contsbi@aol.com writes:

>  This mornining I developed a massive oil leak.  I had just check the level 2
> days ago and it was right on.  While my wife was driving the car the
> emergency light came on and the car was smoking, thank god she was only down
> the street.  After inspection the leak apears to be on the passenger side
> from around the oil filter down, seems dry above.

Almost certainly one of the oil cooler pipes.  "Catastrophic" is a good term 
for the failure mode.  You will very rarely be able to see the fault from the 
outside - once you get them off, it's usually pretty obvious where they've gone.


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 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club