find out the head gasket on yer car has gone

I'm right there with you on that one mate.mine went on tuesday.theres more white smoke than the vatican when theres a new pope

I once had a battered old Sierra that suffered the same fate.
The next day it was parked outside our house waiting to be scrapped when someone crashed into it, hurrah £500 from their insurance company!
..........hope yours is fixable. Let us know what happens

I'm considering some kind of insurance fiddle.....any ideas?!

that is illegal
but make sure they dont find it

The favourite one years ago used to be known as 'dipping the headlights' it consisted of the car being pushed into the docks where the marina now stands. The headlights thus being well and truly dipped.

If I did it they'd sit on the bottom of the dock shining away for weeks...

you know what i would do if i was you salty lad, by yourself a push bike

ive never known someone have as much bad luck with motors than you

me bikes got a flatty!!

My car went in for a service yesterday, I was told it would be £129 then extra for parts. They te=hen phoned the mrs to say that the frnt and rear brakes were absolutely knackered and needed replacing. This pushed the bill up to close to £600 and that was with my 15% discount, out of the goodness of their hearts they gave me 25% discount off the brakes because they had plenty in stock. But still it was £150 labour charge just for the brakes

hate the bloody things, I really do

Most garages are rip off merchants. I have avoided main dealers for a long time now. Use D&R Motors in Billingham, on the Cowpen Bewley Estate, probably for over 20 years now, for all my cars. The owner is Tommy Donnelly, the Chairman of Billingham Town. Being a non techie with regard to virtually anything, I always feel I can trust them not to be having my eyes out whenever I need to take my latest heap of junk in for resuscitation.

are we related?!

Only in as much as we both need to run cars, but can't afford to spend a lot on doing it.

just spent 10 snodgers [c. muttley] on some K SEAL......apparantly its poimanent and will do the job, all I say is yeah right! this is me and my car were talking about here.......




anyhoo, will let yers know how it goes, cos i know yer all dead interested like


oh, and COME ON POOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If the head gasket is gone then it needs replacing. No amount of pouring gunge in the thing will do anything but a temporary repair. It will let you down again and again until its repaired properly.

It's like that slick 50, marketing over reality.

it went ok to Redcar and back
but yeah, it can only temporary.........as long as it holds out till some other poor b ugger gets it via a dealer probably......