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My audi a4 1998 is running out of oil and anti-freezing very fast. So the motor over heats and the console dont stop beeping, help please

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Sounds like a classic sign of a blown headgasket. Is there oil and antifreeze leaking on the ground? First make sure that all the radiator hoses and the radiator itself are all intact and not leaking. If they are not leaking specifically and it is coming from around the top or sides of the motor. Then that is sure sign of head gasket failure. The console beeping is probably a indicator of a sensor telling you the problem if you have an odbII code machine or can get to autozone they have one and it can tell you the error codes. But if you have a suspected head gasket blown i would not drive it there. But of course this is only if it is losing mass amounts of oil and antifreeze. also a sign would be a big white smoke cloud coming out of the tail pipe.

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You need to take it into a shop and have them locate either leaks or what it sounds like to me a blown head gasket , im sorry but there is little you can do other then to have someone look at it.

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