Ok, so the car had quite a big oil leak, found it to be one of the cam covers had cracked at the front and was letting oil everywhere. Got some new (second hand) cam covers for the car and everything seemed fine.
Said oil leak is now back, had a very quick check (coil cover off) and couldn't see anything wrong, no cracks etc. It seems the oil must be coming from the front somewhere as the coil cover was dry all the way up to the small foam lip that covers the cam wheels, this was pretty oily, as is the lower cam belt cover. Let the engine idle for a short while and the viscous fan was blowing drops of oil around the engine bay (towards the throttle body/fuse box).
The puzzling thing is it was fine through Dragonball, and must have started leaking some point Sunday on the way home.
I had just re used the old cam cover gaskets, althought they only have around 3000 miles on them.
Should I get some new cam cover gaskets and try that...? Or do we think it could be something else? I find it strange it didn't start leaking straight away though... Can leaky cam covers make a big mess as the leak looks quite large.
Cheers
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