So on the very first cold day of the year (high of 4 degrees F) my car started smoking quite a bit and I could smell burning oil. At idle, the car would shudder and felt like it was about do die. When I got home, I had smoke coming from under the hood, and a steady drip of oil up the driveway. I stopped the car in the driveway, opened the hood to take a quick peek, then pulled in the garage. There was a small puddle of oil from where the car sat for about a minute before pulling in the garage. Later I pulled the car out so it could be towed to the indy shop I use from time to time. Quite a bit of oil on the garage floor. I wouldn't say a full quart, but maybe a half. Anyway, here is the email they sent and explanations:

Here is the list of recommendations and/or needed items. As I explained on the phone there are two parts to the issues you are having with the vehicle. I will put the into separate estimates. There will also be the estimate if done together due to labor combination.

"First: Smoking/burning/leaking oil from the engine:
Timing chain (camshaft chain) adjusters. Both are definitely leaking from the gasket area and both appear to be leaking from the body of the adjuster. Included in this repair is the following:
Both timing chain adjusters and gaskets
Valve cover gaskets
Timing belt kit, includes belt, a few different seals/o-rings, tensioner, and idler pulley. The parts in this kit are known issues with this vehicle and have been updated by Audi and aftermarket suppliers.
Serpentine belt
Camshaft seals x 2
Water pump, not required but highly recommended due to the age of the water pump and labor time to replace separately.
Front crankshaft seal
$3794.00

Smoking/burning oil from tail pipe. The turbo chargers are leaking internally into the intake allowing the burning of oil. Once we got everything apart we can check and there is oil in the turbo pipes. Not only are you loosing oil but obviously burning oil instead of fuel/air mixture is not good for the engine. Carbon/oil build up, damage to valves, etc...

Turbochargers replaced $4170.00

Turbocharger labor includes removal of the engine. If both jobs are done together the labor savings is about $800.00. For a total of $7170.00

Of course we would recheck everything after these repairs. With the amount of oil leaking from the timing cover area there was no ability to determine if there were smaller leaks.

Also Mike wanted me to let you know that Catalytic converter damage may have already occurred due to the amount of oil being burned, there for traveling thru your exhaust system.

Sorry for the bad news. "

Well, at least she's sorry for the bad news and included a sad face. Does anyone have any helpful advice here? There is no way in hell I'm spending that kind of money to fix the car. Is there anyone in my area(Minneapolis) willing to take a look?

 

www.mnaudi.com

go there, ask your questions there! love that site! sorry i cant be of more help to you

 

btw im sure imola motorsports or futher performance or stellar autoworks would take a look for free

 

If you can spare this car, time to chop it up and sell the parts. Go find yourself a new one.

A few things in the list are an easy fix
such as the valve cover gasket, serp belt, timing belt, and exhaust, but the timing chain and seals, are going the be the most difficult and time consuming as you are going to have to break down the engine.
As for the turbos, those things are just the money pits.
Looks like you will be replacing a whole lot of gaskets to get the car leak free, and probably a head gasket too.
To get your money's worth of the car; de-part it.
Year/Make/Model/Engine?