I have a 2003 A4 1.8T and started noticing oil around the engine only to find out it was coming from what used to be my dipstick tube. I plan on buying a new one and replacing it tomorrow but I was wondering if there are any temporary fixes so it doesn't continue to spray oil everywhere. The oil level looks fine still (although hard to get an accurate reading), but I need to drive the car to get to work tomorrow and I don't want to risk anything like too much oil spraying out, so I was wondering if there is a quick and easy temporary fix I can do, or should I just hold off on driving it until I get it fixed?

 

Don't sweat it man, mine had the same problem about a month ago and in fact i had an oil gasket leak as well. just check your levels every day and keep a quart or gallon of oil in your trunk. no real temporary fix. I just let mine spew everywhere until i got the tube changed. Then i put it up on the drive on's and cleaned up under it. by the way check your oil pan gasket if it keeps leaking because mine was bad.

 

Took a foam hoodstopper from a crappy car my husband has that already needs tons of work, took a piece of the broken dipstick tube and used it to measure the foam and cut it into a plug shape. Bent and inserted a wire hanger into the foam plug, inserted it (by removing the coolant overflow for hand access to guide it into the tube hole.) Bent top of hanger that sticks up to the side to avoid hitting it with hood. Shut hood after replacing the coolant overflow. About to test drive my fix now. Haha.