What to do? What to do?

Hi all,

I recently borrowed a mate's 1.8 (Y plate) Freelander while my own was being shipped back from abroad.
I borrowed it on the understanding that I would have it serviced and sort out the VCU which needed attention.
So, serviced and awaiting new VCU, I was driving up the A1 when the Head Gasket went on me (What joy, at 10pm and -3C! ).
I can't really use it as a donor car as my own one is a TD4, the Gasket repair and inevitable skim will set me back at least £1K with another £500 for the VCU. The car is in reasonable nick otherwise, with 100K on the clock, 8 months tax and MOT. It just seems a little too good to scrap.

Any suggestions willingly received?

Cheers

It's a shame it didn't develop a fuel leak and catch fire then you could have claimed on the insurance.


Or perhaps your 'friend' new the head gasket was weak hence the agreement. :doh:

if it didn't cook the engine when the gasket went, just have a new mls gasket fitted and do not skim it, if the gasket goes again fairly quickly the chances are it has gone beyond a skim to put it right.

As above in Chaser's post but without the burning issues seems Buggered on Bodmin's subliminal spamming of the FL section is rubbing off.

Heads don't need skimmed unless some warrpage (Norwich) is greater than 0.05mm, that's thinner than a RIZZLA paper

£1k is steep for hgf repair in a FL.

Thanks guys,
I left it in the shed, and suggessted to my mate, that he and I broke it for bits, but he had Christmas a coming and binned it for £200, bit of a shame really, tyres alone worth more than that! AND less than I'd paid for the pre-blowup service!....anyhoo, space/time continuum!
What was annoying though (not for me, but for mate) was that the Scrappy, knocked off £20 of the scrappage as no logbook inside the car, AND then he tried to run away with the tax disc (8months to run!). That boy is going to have a half way decent 2001 Freelander with a 100K on sale in some forecourt for around £3K shortly.
Pays to keep your wits about.
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