Hi, first post.
Apologies but I need some good advice before I tear what little hair I have left from my poor head.
A little bit of back history if I may.
Was given an R Reg 98 Freelander 1.8 last march, which someone had apparently bought sight as seen second hand from a small dealer. No log book came with the car...(Yes bad bad bad I know).
Anyway, about a month later I started to get over heating issues, so popped it along to a large well known dealership. Where we found out that the head gasket had blown, including a warped piston/head iirc.
So after a nice and hefty bill of two and a half thousand we were happily back on the road...until this march when out of the blue it started over heating very badly. Took it to a small local specialist dealer who promptly told me that I needed a thermostat kit to move it form where it was to nearer the radiator. I was then told after this had been done that oh by the way there were still hot and cold spots in the rad. So a new one of then was duly installed, another six hundred pounds. Then Sunday gone I was motoring up an incline on the A1 and the temp gauge jumps to the red, over I pull and let it cool down and set of again. I made it to my destination with out too much drama but checked the engine, some of the water/coolant had blown from the reservoir, so heart sinking I checked and sure enough there was a milky residue on the cap.
So do I go with my original plan to beat it with a tree branch or get it fixed again? I'm beginning to think the damned thing is jinxed. (Oh and I have the trio of warning lights now as well /sigh)
Thanks in advance and sorry the for essay.
Regards
J
Apologies but I need some good advice before I tear what little hair I have left from my poor head.
A little bit of back history if I may.
Was given an R Reg 98 Freelander 1.8 last march, which someone had apparently bought sight as seen second hand from a small dealer. No log book came with the car...(Yes bad bad bad I know).
Anyway, about a month later I started to get over heating issues, so popped it along to a large well known dealership. Where we found out that the head gasket had blown, including a warped piston/head iirc.
So after a nice and hefty bill of two and a half thousand we were happily back on the road...until this march when out of the blue it started over heating very badly. Took it to a small local specialist dealer who promptly told me that I needed a thermostat kit to move it form where it was to nearer the radiator. I was then told after this had been done that oh by the way there were still hot and cold spots in the rad. So a new one of then was duly installed, another six hundred pounds. Then Sunday gone I was motoring up an incline on the A1 and the temp gauge jumps to the red, over I pull and let it cool down and set of again. I made it to my destination with out too much drama but checked the engine, some of the water/coolant had blown from the reservoir, so heart sinking I checked and sure enough there was a milky residue on the cap.
So do I go with my original plan to beat it with a tree branch or get it fixed again? I'm beginning to think the damned thing is jinxed. (Oh and I have the trio of warning lights now as well /sigh)
Thanks in advance and sorry the for essay.
Regards
J