Help!! Sheffiedl Calling .Head gasket Espace!!!

take the head off, take it to a reconditioning workshop, buy a headset, get them to assemble the parts on the head, refit head to vehicle. job done

headset £50-100 Skim £25

dont go through a garage, chances are they wont be doing the work themselves, find an auto factor with a w/shop and get them to do it... it shouldnt cost anywhere near £800, I could supply you/recondition your complete engine for 800 +vat but Im no where near you. keep looking around HTH all the best.

Didn't you miss out a whole lot of important details there??? I guy i know had a cambelt break on a new astra. His father fixed it for him. (valves replaced,etc). Two weeks later he had a locked up engine ... it won't start because the 3rd cylinder fills up with water. ..... Even though his father is a ford main dealer mechanic.

ITYM 'because his father is a ford main dealer mechanic.'

John

Hmmm. If you can't come by a few hundred quid when need be, then I fail to see how you manage to run a car ? In consumables alone, I've had a full service, new rear discs and pads, cambelt change, and a new backbox in the last year - totalling somewhere around £500.

If an £800 bill is looming, then it's time to change your car. It's not worth spending hundreds of pounds on a car that's worth hundreds of pounds, for obvious reasons.

Anyone with a driving licence can drive a small white van for a living. Anyone who can hold a spanner can fix fords for a living. Unfortunately, they do employ spanner holders!!! I'm waiting for that chap on eastenders (uk fairy-tale soap opera) to fix his first engine and get credit and praise all round!!

That should encourage a whole load of tool polishers to look for garage work.

Yea ... insurance costs a few hundred too.