A8 oil leak

[TGUNNER]

A8 3.7 q 2001 with oil dripping on to cats any ideas and cost of putting right?

[Crasher]

Do you mean onto the cats? If so that will be the cam covers leaking and this can be just the gaskets, distorted covers and/or a blocked breather system.

[TGUNNER]

Thanks, someone else told me it could me the oil seal on the gearbox ! Is that possible?
Also it has also started to run at 110 c rather than 90 c but it doesn't get any hotter than that and cools down to 90 c when at a stand still....? not the water pump because that was done with the cam belt about a year ago?

[Crasher]

If the gauge is showing 110, it is getting a lot hotter than that, I have seen the gauge reading 90 when the engine is at 117 according top the engines ECU output and confirmed with an infra red temp gauge, you need to get it looked at urgently or you will have an expensive lump of melted engine.

[TGUNNER]

Also Something else I noticed over the weekend is that when it is getting low on petrol the whole of the dash dies i.e rev counter speedo feul gauge and temp gauge goes dark and switches off. After 2-3 mins it beeps and there is a clicking noise coming from the glove box and it comes back on...! then off again and so on.....
Nothing quite like all the problems coming at once...!