Oil leak

Strongbow

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Afternoon,

I have a 1.4tdi 2001. On returning to the car today after parking it on a slope, it looks like I’ve lost quite a bit of oil out of the pipe that attaches to the undertray on the drivers side front.

Any ideas before I ring my garage??

Thanks.

Regards Rob.


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Rob

Unless I am mistaken that will be the webasto heater exhaust so I suspect that the oil will have been leaking elsewhere and resting in the engine cover. Parking on a slope would cause the oil to seek a suitable exit from the tray.

Very hard to comment without seeing the car. May even be worth removing the tray to see source of oil leak. It could even be coming from the rocker cover gasket.

Good luck, Paul
 
Rob, what do you call 'quite a bit' of oil? There's basically 2 sources of oil from the underside of the car - the gearbox (normally lost from around the drive shaft flanges) and the engine oil/sump.

Have you had any work done recently that could have disturbed anything perhaps?
 
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