Perhaps you saw the report on the K16 head gasket situation.
Apart from the high-lighted disaprity between the treatment of Rover and Landrover customers, are these engines as bad as reported ?
My local garage has two in this week, £600 a time ( Rover main dealers wont even consider doing the work, insisting a new engine is fitted )
Could the known inlet manifold gasket weakness be a factor, leading to subsequent over-heating, and head distortion ?
Am I sitting on a time bomb, or have I a reasonable chance of ' getting away with it ? ' the engine lasting to a decent mileage, say
150,000 ! Clearly this adverse publicity is going to seriously damage any residual value.In the car maintenance group, 1.4s seem to feature far more than 1.6s ! Is this representative or are there simply more of them, or are they inherently more unreliable ?
I'd be interested to hear anyone's views on this issue.
Andy Pandy To e-mail, address hopefully, self-explanatory !