Wont stay in gear lot of oil on driveshaft

[Dannysaxo95]

One morning I started up my citreon saxo 1.1 desire, I have no added extras. No after market exhaust or air filter kits, just a bog standard saxo. It started up making such a noise like it someone had just fitted me with a cherry bomb exhaust or something stupid like that, basically it was loud even while idle. I had a look found nothing that looked out of place or missing. I continued to drive as normal not losing power or anything to what i could of imagine of signs of anything to do with the exhaust. the oil looked okay and I struggled to see anything wrong, then one evening I started up drove up my road and then heard a loud BANG then my car just threw it self out of gear. I tried putting it back into gear and low revs to keep the car moving to a safe place to pull over , the car again threw it out of gear. I looked under the car and all i could see ( it was going dark at this time so it was hard to see anything) was which looked like a thick oil all over the driveshaft end , Im not a machaic so im not 100% of what everthing is in cars but I could only make out it looked like I had oil all over the place, Just hoping for some help in which the oil is coming from or what happened?
many thanks guys.

[Ben_SaxoForte]

oil everywhere sounds like the cv joint on the driveshaft has burst open maybe the driveshaft has snapped if it made a bang.. hard to say without seeing it really

[Dannysaxo95]

I currently have no photos of the damage or where the oil is, but I will get some photos uploaded just to give a better idea of what has gone on , but appreicate the help - will get some photos uploaded asap though. :)

[Dannysaxo95]

http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l355/Danielle_Halliday/IMG_0195_zpswkszmycv.jpg (http://s328.photobucket.com/user/Danielle_Halliday/media/IMG_0195_zpswkszmycv.jpg.html)

[Gandi699]

Inner cv boot gone, replacement kits available - see this (http://www.saxperience.com/forum/showthread.php?t=454533) if you want to know how to change it.
Or renew the shaft, much easier to do that. Changing the near side driveshaft on a saxo will take all of half an hour max just remember to drain the box oil first

[Dannysaxo95]

Okay, think Ill just renew the shaft if thats easier. Thanks for the help. :)

[Ben_SaxoForte]

The driveshaft is most probably knackered anyway if its been making noises so definitely replace it. This doesn't really explain the car being loud when idling though I think that is most likely a different issue maybe the exhaust blowing somewhere. Make sure you get some new gearbox oil before you start if you are doing the job yourself.

[stevo67]

check the condition of the driveshaft seal as well.

[Gandi699]

check the condition of the driveshaft seal as well.

Yeah good shout there bud, you'd be crazy not to pop a new drive shaft seal in as they only pry out and are a few pounds to buy