Re: garage /car/advice re headgasket blown engine.
 

Wideboy - Depending on the engine, a gasket kit might include new head bolts, belt tensioners etc.

Re: garage /car/advice re headgasket blown engine.
 

Head bolts are itemized separately. Cam tentioner would come in a cam set, regardless of that I've bought all of that separately and its still not come to 120 quid. It is a vauxhall after all

I Duno maybe I just shop at a cheaper place :smt102 nothing of mine goes near a garage only mine for the exact point that quiff has raised. You never know what they've done/doing, what crap they putting on your vehicle and if they've done it properly. Always worth investing in tools and your own time

Re: garage /car/advice re headgasket blown engine.
 

Yep rather know its done right, the last one I did was a MK3 Granada with the twin cam. That needed bolts etc, but I think it cost me £130 for everything including a skim. Oh and a fair few hours work :-)

Re: garage /car/advice re headgasket blown engine.
 

thats the thing see- if you factor in your own labour then it aint so cheap..

I was there having my car MOT when the head gasket for mands came in..I saw it and it was a special name or something.. quality one he said..

going to see him in a bit .. so all will be revealed.. the last week he has had the car and looked at it and tappets etc he says he can lose that labour... and can get refunded on the items he used.. so he wont charge .. ta ... but we wont get any of our £670 for the head gasket back ? that didnt solve the issue. so me a bit perplexed

to me it should have come out mended... and yet it was worse and has cost us another £1100

Re: garage /car/advice re headgasket blown engine.
 

ive just sold our lasses astra because the headgasekt went and the kit for that was about 120 quid!! the head gasket alone is 50 off then manifold gaskets and the such. most places were quoting 600+ for it fixing so swapped it for a corsa!

if youve taken it in to get the head gasket fixed and a service it should come out fixed. theyve charged you for something and youve not got it. Its like saying ill have a quarter pounder please and then giving you it uncooked.

Re: garage /car/advice re headgasket blown engine.
 

I had the head gasket go on my cavalier once and it cost £400 to get it done. Quite a few years ago, so I don't think that your price is too extreme, but mine was skimmed and I never had any further issues.

But if it went wrong like yours I'd be straight back to the garage to know why. I'd also take i to another garage/or RAC inspector to get a statement of what caused it to go wrong after getting fixed.

If the garage is at fault, then perhaps the small claims court could help you out?

Re: garage /car/advice re headgasket blown engine.
 

sorry but if the garaged changed the head, they will have had to drain the oil, ot at least check it, feck em off and get your money back, and the AA, ffs.. bunch of numpties.

Re: garage /car/advice re headgasket blown engine.
 

It list a service in the itemised invoice

Re: garage /car/advice re headgasket blown engine.
 

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Re: garage /car/advice re headgasket blown engine.
 

Agreed it should have, sounds quite simply to me that the garage havent diagnosed the fault properly. Or that the engine had two faults, the fixed one and then found the 2nd one.

Maybe it did need a new head gasket, but theres no way of telling that now...

Its all very well you guys who say "should have done it yourself" but thats only an option if you have the time, space and tools to be able to do that. Who is to say that you'd have done what the garage might have done i.e. replaced the head gasket and then found another problem you werent aware of because the head gasket issue was masking it.

Have you been back to the garage yet, what did they say ?