What is the symptoms of a head gasket which needs replaced?

SkintNalsy

Can someone who knows a lot about cars please advise what the indications of a dead head gasket are?

Ta

flang

Oil mixed with anti freeze = froffy kinda substance found in coolant tank.
Other symptoms could be lack of power, excess burning of oil, smoking or oil seeping from around cylinder head

Im not a mechanic BTW

jonathon

the most common one is oil in the water if you take the filler cap off the oil will look all milky,also if you are useing a lot of water but both could also be a cracked head.what car is it ?

flang

Im gussing its a Rover! or Peugeot 106/Saxo

bordercars

why , whats wrong. give us the syptoms.

AHAR

Yeah, Rover is it?
Been there, done that. Mine would usually not fire properly on all cylinders until it warmed up. I often had steam coming out the exhaust too!.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

milky oil, have a look under & around the filler cap.

elaina79

When ours went the car got very thirsty and we were putting in lots of water. Also there was white smoke coming out of the exhaust. It also cost a fortune to fix.

vaio

One or more of……..

Milky oil, excessive water use, rough running, steam out of exhaust or a geyser where the radiator cap used to be

harveybobbles

SkintNalsy wrote: »

Can someone who knows a lot about cars please advise what the indications of a dead head gasket are?

Ta

Anything with a Rover/MG badge on the front...

pulliptears

harveybobbles wrote: »

Anything with a Rover/MG badge on the front...

Or, Fiat Punto, around the "m" reg mark......