garage /car/advice re headgasket blown engine.

1 tappet was stuck. they freed that

2 needed replacing.


meant head gasket when said head.. the head was skimmed and all new bolts used

I said to Mandy if engine had been cooked surely they would have known so why take £700 quid off us??? when they should have seen it needed a new engine..

in discussion with RAC to claim off them but might let RAC discuss it with garage to reduce their pay out to us..

or indeed could mand use her legal cover on her insurance? or is that only for accidents etc..

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£680 is an awful lot of money to take a head off, get it skimmed and put all back together again, did you use a main dealer?

As a guide it took me an hour to get my sons car apart, probably half an hour to strip the head (cams out etc but the valves can stay in), then about three hours to put it all back together as I spent ages getting the cam sensor disc properly timed up, and I didn't have the specialist tools available either. Even if you allowed 6 hours total that's a big bill.

thought it was big .. no not main dealer.. usual local garage where taken all my cars and bikes. always seemed honest and good.

this is the bill..

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ha no it aint THIS IS

Labour and VAT mainly eh

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Have you tried one of these engine reconditioning outfits. Sometimes they offer a tow in drive out service so you leave you car with them, they then either replace your engine with a reconditioned one or take yours out and recondition that?

Is the £600 engine you've been offered a complete engine with gearbox and ancillaries?

this is it... but tis local to us .. so got a better deal.. well Mandy did cos she works that way .


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8 hours work for a Corsa head gasket is ridiculous, If they are going to have the apprentice do it they should at least charge you the appropriate rate. And they have stung you big time for the gasket set and the "Intermediate service", unless they did the whole car ie brakes and such like they only had to change the oil!