I don't beleive it. my bloody head gasket has gone now!

KevMarks · 9 May 2006 at 22:24

Yup, looked in the water the other day and it had oil floating around the top of it. I noticed the engine getting really hot as well. This is only a week after it got broken in to and some little chav caused 200 quids worth of damage to the door.

I am selling the car without question, do i tell them about the head gasket or just do a sold as seen and hope they dont notice? It would be about 200 quid to fix and I would sell the car at about 500 quid (S reg 1.1 saxo, 100,000 miles)

neil-ste · 9 May 2006 at 22:37

How handy are you with spanners? It's a pretty easy job doing the HG on a TU engine. For someone reasonably competent it should only be a few hours job.

iCraig · 9 May 2006 at 22:41

KevMarks said:
do i tell them about the head gasket or just do a sold as seen and hope they dont notice?

Don't be an ass. Either fix the head gasket and sell it, or sell the car for scrap.

Some people will still buy the car if the head gasket has gone, for spares, project car etc.

Hoping they won't notice is a bit daft, you said it overheats. What will happen on the test drive?

FincH · 9 May 2006 at 22:56

You should either get it fixed or tell them.

Vertigo · 9 May 2006 at 23:05

Yep, trying to sell it without letting on would be deplorable. I feel for you but that's no reason to try to palm it off onto someone else.

Vertigo · 9 May 2006 at 23:09

Been keeping an eye on that website but no sign of any ring taxi tickets. Am wondering whether the site is actually alive tbh

James_N · 9 May 2006 at 23:12

Vertigo1 said:
Been keeping an eye on that website but no sign of any ring taxi tickets. Am wondering whether the site is actually alive tbh

wrong thread me thinks

Vertigo · 9 May 2006 at 23:28

Oops

<(Multi)> · 9 May 2006 at 23:40

I thought Citroen made Saxo's, not Rover?? :confused:

James_N · 9 May 2006 at 23:42

<(Multi)> said:
I thought Citroen made Saxo's, not Rover??

ajgoodfellow · 9 May 2006 at 23:44

<(Multi)> said:
I thought Citroen made Saxo's, not Rover??

Oh, come on, enough!

Do we get screams of Peugeot HGF as soon as anyone mentions Peugeot after the 405 suffered from it? No

iCraig · 9 May 2006 at 23:45

<(Multi)> said:
I thought Citroen made Saxo's, not Rover??

lol that was like the most original joke about rovers we have ever seen

Sputnik II · 10 May 2006 at 00:30

There was some weird guy in the fuel station tonight parked right on the air machine messing about with his Citroen ZX, when I asked if he was going to be long because I wanted to check my tyres he told me he was trying to flush the oil out of his water. lol.

djbenjo · 10 May 2006 at 00:33

<(Multi)> said:
I thought Citroen made Saxo's, not Rover??

Shootist · 10 May 2006 at 00:34

iCraig said:
lol that was like the most original joke about rovers we have ever seen

Yep, we all know it's a running joke.
Oh look, my Rover's done 268,000 miles on its' ORIGINAL head gasket..

Fulcrum · 10 May 2006 at 02:07

Which Rover is that, a V6 ?

Shootist · 10 May 2006 at 02:57

Just a bog standard 820i, Dec 1996 reg.

KevMarks · 10 May 2006 at 20:44

well it is going to get put back where it came from. The car auction! Sold as seen and if it makes enough to buy me a car alarm for my new motor I will be happy. Hopefully some mechanics will be in and spot it to fix up. Knowing my luck it will go for 50 quid lol

The citroen saxo is a awfull car to be honest. I can't see why anybody would buy one now. Fancy doing a swap for that rover?

Garrett · 10 May 2006 at 20:47

Yep I'd sell it, I sold a Citroen AX with a failed head gasket for more than I paid for it after years of abuse.

Alluminium engine with HGF failure = continued and repeating pain in the butt in my opinion.

KevMarks · 10 May 2006 at 20:50

Are they ok to drive around with the head gasket knacked? I am leaving it parked at the moment and a friend is driving me to work and back.