Hi. I have a oil leak somewhere and I'm not sure where's it's coming from. But there's oil round the spark plugs and over the front of the engine. If I'm going up a steep hill and hit 4000 revs it starts to lack power. Could anyone shed se light on what my problem is?

Many thanks

That sounds like you could have leaks around the spark plug tubes.

 

Pull the plugs, clean the insulators, and see if things get better for a little to confirm.

Ah ok cheers. Is that a quick and easy job to do?

you sure its not a rocker cover leak?

Based on my own experience I would suspect rocker cover. 

 

It's quite a common issue & reasonably cheap/easy to fix. 

Really? ok cheers guys. i'll look into this and let you know the outcome of it.

On my old Octavia I didn't completely tighten two of the rocker cover bolts after I changed the cambelt, it made a right mess although only a small amount of oil actually escaped.

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Since my last service from a Skoda garage (which Skoda have taken the franchise away from now) me and many people have had bad experiances from them. But its turns out that the sparks plus were lose and one of the coil pack had failed. Both problems had been sorted and hopefully no more leaks. Thanks for your comments tho!