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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2007 13:59:17 GMT
Was told head gasket had gone and would cost £350 to sort,
took car to another garage, and job was sorted for £150 and only faulty rad was replaced.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2007 22:50:50 GMT
my dad garage you are talking a bout he dose the be job on the cars and his is one of the bes recomended garage in hailsham and eastbourne
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Post by Stephen on May 26, 2007 23:55:13 GMT
knowing ur dad he probably didnt want to work on a mini!
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2007 0:48:20 GMT
wasent a mini
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Post by Simon1275mpi on May 27, 2007 7:33:14 GMT
How often do you hear of people scraping cars due to the head gasket going  . The time is with the hours to take it apart, fix and refit. Its not cheap.  And who's to say a more efficient new rad will now just hide a head gasket problem for a failure at a later date, a false economy? I step down from my soap box  ;D The Hermitage Garage did some good work on my TR7 a few years back.  But it I did go DIY due to the cost in the end  |
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Post by monkeyjim on May 27, 2007 11:02:02 GMT
A few of the cars scrapped by myself or customers at work this year due to uneconomical repair
p reg vectra estate , waterpump went as did cambelt and bent valves.
Renault Laguna estate , disel r reg , higher mileage , gearbox went .
Tata diesel pick up truck , 51 reg, yes 51 reg, bent valves needed head . scrapped
Renault 5 mot failure
Metro 1275 auto 44k , mot failure .
Renault clio , DIESEL mot failure , I bought it for £10
My old Citrien ax , needed new rack and a couple of tyres , not worth doing as only paid £25 for it in first place and the tax was also due .
MONDEO ESTATE , M REG MOT failure
the list goes on
The cars listed are handy vehicles as they are diesel or estates .
Its purely because the value of the car is not high enough to warrant spending the money on them.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2007 12:03:13 GMT
we just scrapped a 02 plate golf SDI, due to a snapped engine mount, it cracked the block, and killed the cam belt,
also a Astra td for a cracked head.
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Post by MiniGT5 on May 27, 2007 12:28:17 GMT
If we all thought like that then I would have scrapped my cooper 5 years ago. I really need to get out there and sell these people some magic cooper tape to get their cars back on the road  N |
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Post by Stephen on May 28, 2007 12:44:56 GMT
but its a good thing, can get a daily driver for peanuts, who cares if it only lasts 2 years?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2008 16:47:06 GMT
I refuse to go there anymore. My car once broke down on the way there for a MOT and the next morning when they opened I wenet there,apologised for breaking my appointment and wanted to rearrange and i had this Neanderthal give me a huge amount of abuse. The owner Ian just stood a few feet away and let him do it. I have to MOT over 30 cars a year. Mots 4 U now do it and I receive fantastic service and they dont do any work themselves so have no reason to fail a car to get extra work out of it.
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. The time is with the hours to take it apart, fix and refit. Its not cheap. 
And who's to say a more efficient new rad will now just hide a head gasket problem for a failure at a later date, a false economy? I step down from my soap box 
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But it I did go DIY due to the cost in the end 
