Just had a visit from my darling Mother in her Rover 100...
She's been having a few problems with it showing odd temperatures, running the fan all the time etc. A man down the road who 'knows about cars' came round and poked a stick through the pipes from the expansion tank and said it was probably fixed.
She came over here and I took a look. The pipes had been blocked with good thick mayonnaise. On a P-reg Rover 100 with the 1.1 K-series engine. Any guesses? ;-)
She's just driven it very slowly home, and will be taking it to her local friendly garage (*Not* the chap down the road) to talk about a new head gasket or a recon engine - she loves the car and won't hear of dumping it for a new one. I tried to tell her that even before she bought a Rover...
Any ideas of likely cost for either method of fixing it?
By the way, I'd like to apologise to anybody, especially truckies, using the northbound M5 around J11-J9 this afternoon. For some reason she decided not to use the A/B road route home I suggested and went at 30mph along the Motorway instead... You won't be surprised to hear that her driving has always terrified me, even though she rarely gets above 50mph...