Digging up an old topic... but I have a problem which appears similar to Silverback's: my Stagea (S2) is being held up on the numbers check for rego' (after compliance) because (as I've been told by the compliancer) there's a bad oil leak, which is enough to visibly drip onto the floor and they will fail it.
I don't have any more details other than the engine was pretty oily underneath for the day that I had it to look it over before it went off to compliance, and the leak is coming from the passenger side of the engine. Although he mentioned that it was the oil cooler that was leaking, and I'm pretty sure that's part of the oil filter assembly, which is on the driver's side? I'm hoping he didn't leave the oil line to the turbo off when he changed the cat's...
So yeah, if anyone can help with what this might be or what might be involved cost-wise in replacement parts... please feel free At this stage I'm going to go pick up the car as it's apparrently still driveable (with trade plates) from the compliancer on Sat. so I will post some pic's. He said he suspected it was an engine out job (!) so I will definitely be fixing this myself. Plan to do the 100,000K service at the same time, to get me some room to get at it.