Garage broke my car

[user3420]

Put my car in for a mot today and it failed on emmisions

Anyway i took it home, got less than 2 miles from garage and temp gauge was off scale at 110

Stopped and checked it, when i undid exspantion tank cap, all this brown water came firing out

Dare say thats the head gasket given up?????????

Thing is guy at garage was on about this new way they do test where they input details into system and it takes about an hours and half

With car not passing emmisions he said it took full time to do test, where as a healthy car will take minutes

Also had about 1/4 of a tank and its all gone so cars been clearly left running for some time

He's not taken it out for a run as milage was same as when i put it in

WHERE DO I STAND AND CAN I DO ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!

Wouldnt be so bad if it passed but that fact mot cost me £44 then £6 for redX (to try cleaning injectors to pass mot) then a new head gasket

Well I took one of our cars in for MOT today, took about half hour in total. (granted it was the Merc) but as I'm aware it should only take half hour with the engine running to do the emissions and that's at the very most! :shock:


On the other hand, it could be the head gasket was already on it's way? Difficult one to prove :???:

[kurgen]

Ba***ds!!!!!! You poor thing. Trouble is trying to prove it was them!!!!! Whatever you do don't take it back there to be repaired.
dave

[petbeemer]

Sounds like yer gasket was already on the way m8,idleing for any amount of time shouldn't kill an engine,look what goes on on a rolling road!

[user3420]

Yeh kinda knew that, i suppose unless they actually took it out and i could prove they were "thrashing it and 4uck3d it theres not much i can do

Good thing is iv got a good mechanic and says he'll take it in b4 monday and do gasket easily in a day, last time it went on other car he charged me £70 for job which was lucky one as bought car cheap with the understanding that a con rod had snapped

[petbeemer]

Bite the bullet and just have it done then m8,its probably why the emmisions were screwed anyway

[user3420]

Originally Posted by petbeemer

Bite the bullet and just have it done then mate,its probably why the emmisions were screwed anyway

Was gonna ask that, Cars booked in tommorow with my mate to have gasket changed

[evo mattvi]

I would say it sounds the same to me

The head gasket looks like it was on it way out I wouldn't have thought that the mot would have damaged the gasket

[Distinctive Cars York]

Sorry to hear , but a mot station cant really be blamed for a head gasket going in any way or form really . i tyhink its just how its happened - must have already been on its way out for definate

You will soon have another one one :-)

[user3420]

THANKS FOR ALL YOUR REPLYS, Realised it not garages fault but just got caught up in moment when it happend

Gasket should be on and car back by weekend

A cheap lesson i presume, last rebuild cost couple of grand and isnt finished yet