garyrigden

garyrigden

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put a post on here a couple of months ago regarding the wife wanting another freelander(diesel this time). anyway after looking unsuccessfully for a decent diesel freelander within our price range she got fed up and decided on an MG ZR instead:confused:
she has had the car 3 weeks now and bet you can't guess what happened this morning?
The ****in' head gasket went:doh:
it's got a nice stream of water ****ing out of the joint between the head and block all over the exhaust manifold.
anyway not all is lost. i got it from a dealer and just one phone call later it's being picked up in the morning and fixed for free:clap2:
ooh i love the rover k series!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Oh dear!!

Sounds like you were lucky there mate but is a lesson well learnt.

My Hippo was in the garage the other day for work on the air con. They leant me a Rover 214 with a K series so I could get the mile or so to work and back to the garage to retrieve the Hippo at the end of the day. In that time the head gasket went. Luck its not my car eh?

Good luck,

Dave
 
Darmain said:
Oh dear!!

Sounds like you were lucky there mate but is a lesson well learnt.

My Hippo was in the garage the other day for work on the air con. They leant me a Rover 214 with a K series so I could get the mile or so to work and back to the garage to retrieve the Hippo at the end of the day. In that time the head gasket went. Luck its not my car eh?

Good luck,

Dave
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cheers, just thankfull that it's not going to cost me anything!
 
when you get it back check the head has actually been off and they haven't just dumped a K-Seal in it, as the stuff will seal a head even when water is ****ing out of the side of the gasket! i know i did it to me dads mgf (i know! i warned him!) just to get him out of a jam!
 
If you have any influence with garage doing the work, see if they will fit the MLS gasket instead of the standard one that has a poor bonding of the sealing bead to the gasket.
 
there wont be a warranty tho - unless they do the full job....

"In designing the new kit, XPart and SAIC have used a combination of the revised lower oil rail designed by MG Rover engineers, higher tensile 10.9 grade long stretch bolts and a new single piece multi-layer steel gasket engineered by SAIC for its new N-series engine. The gasket should not be fitted in isolation and it is the kit together with revised torque settings that provides the best known repair. The XPart parts warranty only applies when the full kit has been used."
 
The Mad Hat Man said:
there wont be a warranty tho - unless they do the full job....

"In designing the new kit, XPart and SAIC have used a combination of the revised lower oil rail designed by MG Rover engineers, higher tensile 10.9 grade long stretch bolts and a new single piece multi-layer steel gasket engineered by SAIC for its new N-series engine. The gasket should not be fitted in isolation and it is the kit together with revised torque settings that provides the best known repair. The XPart parts warranty only applies when the full kit has been used."
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won't make a **** of difference:D my personal opinion and also my mate who runs a machine shop k series and especially the 1.8 are ****:p
 
Try going to a machine shop, littered with 1.8 k series and sequential head gasket failures, tipped liners/loose liners etc etc

Only good thing is weighing in for scrap
 
yu must have got it wrong, F - marinabrain has fixed 70 off em without any problems, apparently :rolleyes: - he said so.
 
The Mad Hat Man said:
yu must have got it wrong, F - marinabrain has fixed 70 off em without any problems, apparently :rolleyes: - he said so.
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Well I'll keep on thinking they are a godforsaken piece of **** and validate it by the numerous threads on here:p
 
G-man said:
when you get it back check the head has actually been off and they haven't just dumped a K-Seal in it, as the stuff will seal a head even when water is ****ing out of the side of the gasket! i know i did it to me dads mgf (i know! i warned him!) just to get him out of a jam!
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i already thought of that so i marked a lot of the bolt heads with little scratches before the car went back to the garage, so i will check when i collect it.
 
chromiumuk said:
You'd have been as well buying the much cheaper petrol freelander if it was a K-series motor you were after.
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she decided she didn't want a freelander any more, she wanted something sporty instead!
though whats sporty about a 1.4 rover 25 with a body kit and alloys i don't know.(oh sorry i ment 1.4 MG ZR);)
 
garyrigden said:
she decided she didn't want a freelander any more, she wanted something sporty instead!
though whats sporty about a 1.4 rover 25 with a body kit and alloys i don't know.(oh sorry i ment 1.4 MG ZR);)
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Surprisingly good handling these ZR's but the 1.8 160 would have been my choice:cool:
 
Mantamad said:
Surprisingly good handling these ZR's but the 1.8 160 would have been my choice:cool:
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if it was for me i would have gone for the vvc 160 but she ain't the most switched on driver so if she had 160bhp to play with she would have stuffed it by now. as it is in the 3 weeks she didn't have a car and she was using my disco she put a supermarket trolly dent in one of the rear doors, crashed it into the house, twice! due to parking to close,applying the handbrake and you can guess what happened as soon as she took her foot off brake!. the best one though was in a car park in dover where she parked up,got out and walked over to the ticket machine,then suddenly heard a smash and the sound of breaking glass,turned round to find my disco having an argument with the bottle bank cos she had left the bloody handbrake off!!!!!. fortunately winch bumpers seem to be tougher than bottle banks
fook sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad::mad::mad:
 
garyrigden said:
if it was for me i would have gone for the vvc 160 but she ain't the most switched on driver so if she had 160bhp to play with she would have stuffed it by now. as it is in the 3 weeks she didn't have a car and she was using my disco she put a supermarket trolly dent in one of the rear doors, crashed it into the house, twice! due to parking to close,applying the handbrake and you can guess what happened as soon as she took her foot off brake!. the best one though was in a car park in dover where she parked up,got out and walked over to the ticket machine,then suddenly heard a smash and the sound of breaking glass,turned round to find my disco having an argument with the bottle bank cos she had left the bloody handbrake off!!!!!. fortunately winch bumpers seem to be tougher than bottle banks
fook sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad::mad::mad:
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Sounds right dopey mare
 
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