plunky
16-01-2008, 19:08
right, bit of a long story but here goes....a couple of months ago the headgasket on my 1.4 maxim went so i got this fixed by a local mechanic, this cost me nearly £300. but recently the car has not felt right and has been really lumpy on start up. i also noticed it was going through coolant quite a lot so i looked at the oil cap and there was the mayo type substance showing that water is gettin into the oil. so i thought the headgasket was goin again.
i took the car to the same mechanic again and he reckons it is the headgasket again.
my question is do i bother getting it fixed again because chances are i will probably need a new head as that is what might be causing the problem or do i get a new engine, either another 1.4 or maybe a 1.8, or do i get the engine rebuilt? if i got it rebuilt i would probably want to get some work done to it at the same time.
i would probably like to get a new engine but then again i am walking into maybe having the same problems with the new engine.
what are peoples views on this? any help would be greatly appreciated.
also could somebody who knows what their talking about, help me in what i could have done to the engine if it were to get rebuilt and what sort of costs are involved?
cheers
Liam
i took the car to the same mechanic again and he reckons it is the headgasket again.
my question is do i bother getting it fixed again because chances are i will probably need a new head as that is what might be causing the problem or do i get a new engine, either another 1.4 or maybe a 1.8, or do i get the engine rebuilt? if i got it rebuilt i would probably want to get some work done to it at the same time.
i would probably like to get a new engine but then again i am walking into maybe having the same problems with the new engine.
what are peoples views on this? any help would be greatly appreciated.
also could somebody who knows what their talking about, help me in what i could have done to the engine if it were to get rebuilt and what sort of costs are involved?
cheers
Liam