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Head Gasket oh no

Post by BONGO-LOUIS » Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:47 pm

Well after a fab weekend away with great company. Bongo has decided to burst a hose with poss head gasket blown or worse still cracked head. Have been told poss £1500.00 for replace head and gasket.....any advice appreciated. :roll: :roll: happy birthday Tina (no retail therapy time for me now i suppose) :cry: :cry:
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Re: Head Gasket oh no

Post by lizard » Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:51 pm

BONGO-LOUIS wrote:Well after a fab weekend away with great company. Bongo has decided to burst a hose with poss head gasket blown or worse still cracked head. Have been told poss £1500.00 for replace head and gasket.....any advice appreciated. :roll: :roll: happy birthday Tina (no retail therapy time for me now i suppose) :cry: :cry:
S**t, that's terrible news :(
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Post by waycar8 » Wed Mar 04, 2009 9:56 pm

Crap, hope your sorted for the daffy meet guys.

well on ebay you can get a new engine fitted for £895 :arrow:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0358844426

Cheaper option than £1500 nicker.

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Post by missfixit70 » Wed Mar 04, 2009 11:09 pm

Fingers crossed for you guys [-o< hope it's not as bad as you think. What happened?
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Post by BONGO-LOUIS » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:08 am

lizard wrote:
BONGO-LOUIS wrote:Well after a fab weekend away with great company. Bongo has decided to burst a hose with poss head gasket blown or worse still cracked head. Have been told poss £1500.00 for replace head and gasket.....any advice appreciated. :roll: :roll: happy birthday Tina (no retail therapy time for me now i suppose) :cry: :cry:
S**t, that's terrible news :(
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Re: Head Gasket oh no

Post by mikeonb4c » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:09 am

V sorry indeed to hear that BONGO-LOUIS. Not a lot more I can say except fingers crossed its only the gasket and/or cost to fix it not as high as you fear (£1500 sounds a lot as I'm sure I've read of peeps getting it done for half that).

Good luck and keep us posted. [-o<
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Post by BONGO-LOUIS » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:19 am

waycar8 wrote:Crap, hope your sorted for the daffy meet guys.

well on ebay you can get a new engine fitted for £895 :arrow:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0358844426

Cheaper option than £1500 nicker.

Wayne
Cheers fo that wayne will check out tomorrow. re daffy meet may have to turn up in a 2 seater :lol: :lol: but will be their...
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Post by mister munkey » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:31 am

Mate! :(

So sorry. Hopefully it'll be at the cheaper end of the fixing scale & sorted pronto.

On the worst case scenario, I've been down that road. Cost £1200 but sorted in a day & been as good as new for the last 16 months.

Fingers crossed & keep us posted.


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Post by The Great Pretender » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:56 am

BONGO-LOUIS wrote:Well after a fab weekend away with great company. Bongo has decided to burst a hose with poss head gasket blown or worse still cracked head. Have been told poss £1500.00 for replace head and gasket.....any advice appreciated. :roll: :roll: happy birthday Tina (no retail therapy time for me now i suppose) :cry: :cry:
Ok, so a hose burst, so why do you think the worst? Or is that just the garage talking it up?
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Post by BONGO-LOUIS » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:06 am

Yeah this is what the garage quoted. Their is oil chucking it out the side of the engine, we have used this garage for 6 years he has worked on our other cars. and he has qoted the worst. fingers crossed it wont come to this. if it does will look at buying new engine as waycar sugested :roll: :roll: also should add bongo overheated a couple of weeks ago thought we got it sorted obviously not...
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Post by Bob » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:11 am

Bad luck. :(

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Post by The Great Pretender » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:13 am

Chucking oil out of the side of the engine? Near side?
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Re: Head Gasket oh no

Post by sparkymik » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:14 am

That's bad news hope you get sorted, it was ok at the week-end too

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Post by BONGO-LOUIS » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:22 am

The Great Pretender wrote:Chucking oil out of the side of the engine? Near side?

no offside????
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Post by The Great Pretender » Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:27 am

BONGO-LOUIS wrote:
The Great Pretender wrote:Chucking oil out of the side of the engine? Near side?

no offside????
lots?
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