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JC, sounds like you did OK. I'm glad the post helped you out. Since my post this discussion has taken several directions. But you have picked up on my original intent, that is when this happens there isn't much wrong with the car other than finding the "weak point" where the oil came out. In your case it was only the hoses, in my case it was the oil cap. These $2000 repairs from the dealer are not needed. Problem is this could happen to you again, I'm up to three but my last was from the dip stick. I just pull it up so only one O-ring is holding, the system is normally under vacuum so it doesn't cause any issues, but if pressure builds up it will shoot oil out of the dip stick vs. damaging some other part. Also it this happens, you only have to wait 5- 10 minutes and the OS will defrost, from the heat of the engine. That’s how mine went last time, it was cold so I kept an eye on my exhaust, as soon as I saw the extra smoke I pulled over. When I opened the hood I saw oil squirting from the dip stick tube, it was just getting by the o-ring but the o-ring and dipstick stayed in place. Then I shut off the engine and it stopped. Waited 5-10 minutes and started the engine again, this time no oil was coming out and I continued to work, about 1 quart came out total, just topped it off later. I have 30K miles on the car with the dip stick in this position with no problems.
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