Trying to figure out how bad oil pan is leaking on my 09 E70 N52. This year I addressed valve cover gasket that was leaking pretty bad. Now that valve gasket leak is no longer there, I got under the car and took the engine under cover off. I think my oil pan is leaking, it's pretty obvious (see pics).
I am more concerned about oil being near transmission and on the tranny cover. It doesn't look like tranny fluid, although I might be wrong. Couple of questions:
* Can leaking oil pan cause oil go towards transmission like that?
* How soon do you think I will need to address this leak, can I drive it like that for another 30k or so (I put 6-10k a year)?
I have 122k miles and was planning to keep the car at least 'till 150k. Oil pan gasket replacement is a difficult DIY and very costly otherwise, want to avoid that job.
