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

JamesJamz

Excess use of coolant too

steveo3002

hahah @ anything with a rover badge

oil and or coolant looks like mayonaise

lots of water being used

white smoke from the tail pipe

overheating , and usualy some kind of misfire /poor running

peachyprice

Mayonnaise in your coolant reservoir too, probably easier to see at a glance that the oil. and steam coming from the engine compartment.

My Land Rover cost £850 ouch :eek:

squeaky

A quick test...

With the engine cold - take off the radiator cap. Start the car. Look into the top of the radiator.

If your head gasket has gone the pressurised air(plus fuel mix) will be forced past the gasket into your water system and the water in your radiator won't just tremble from engine vibration - it will hubble and bubble meaning toil and trouble.

Ukuser

or for more visible sign - when the engine is cold - replace rad cap with a condom and start engine - if your condom blows up - your gaskets gone! - or get a sniffer test done just like jock on "the garage" lol

SkintNalsy

Thanks everyone. I failed on my MOT (car is a Daewoo matiz by the way) and the garage quoted a dead head gasket. A friend of mine who fixes cars had a look and he swears it isn't the headgasket so just wanted to make sure. Car is burning oil but this is due to there being a major gash in one of the oil pipes which meant that there was oil being sucked into the air filter. I just want to make sure that I am right in saying that the 'garage' conned or tried to con me. They quoted me £870. I told them to go away (in similar words)! lol

mermaid85

Wonder if anyone here can help me - as you all have such a high opinion of Rovers!!! I bought an R reg Rover 200, 4 months ago yesterday, with 3 month warrenty. The head gasket blew Saturday night. Do I have a leg to stand on with the car dealer or just have to deal with it?

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Our MG drank coolant - that was our indication the head gasket was on the way out.. We then sold it to a dealer

mermaid - i don't think you are covered sadly (and its an expensive repair).

goldspanners

mermaid85 wrote: »

Wonder if anyone here can help me - as you all have such a high opinion of Rovers!!! I bought an R reg Rover 200, 4 months ago yesterday, with 3 month warrenty. The head gasket blew Saturday night. Do I have a leg to stand on with the car dealer or just have to deal with it?

to do the job properly it might not be worth it to be honest, an r reg rover cant be worth more than £500 if your lucky.the job would cost at least £400 to be done right, to be done cheaply would be about £200 but wont last long at all.

this is why a lot of people dont have a high opinion of rovers!!

1984ReturnsForReal_2

goldspanners wrote: »

to do the job properly it might not be worth it to be honest, an r reg rover cant be worth more than £500 if your lucky.the job would cost at least £400 to be done right, to be done cheaply would be about £200 but wont last long at all.

this is why a lot of people dont have a high opinion of rovers!!

£2000 in a couple of weeks..