Well it had to happen, I was having a good month and looking forward to summer approaching but it wasn't to be.
The dreaded HGF failure has happened, and at 52,000 miles im gutted! :sad3: I thought if anything it would catch up with me later not now! (Not that you can put a time span on these things!)
The cars been running fine with no warning signs of it starting to go it was so strange. Driving back from work tonight (only a 10 - 15 minute drive) and I noticed the water temp rising very quickly. It ended up just below the red as I pulled up to my house, so I jumped out to check the engine bay expecting steam and water everywhere but nothing apart from there was no water left in my coolant! At this point I thought it may of leaked at some point, so I topped it up and ran the car for 5 mins around the block.
It ran very lumpy and I knew straight away there was a engine problem. After inpecting the coolant again, the water I topped up with now had oil patches in it spelling out my worst fear. Luckily I didn't let the car overheat so at least the head shouldn't need replacing, but im so gutted! Luckily my best friend works at a garage so I can get the head skimmed and the put in again at near trade cost hopefully but im still gonna be so skint, and carless for the next 2 weeks! Anyway don't mean to scare anyone with all this negativity, I just hope I can afford to keep my car going if anything else goes wrong on it!
Its ironic, I replied to a poll about everyones cars and the trouble they'd had and mine had been fine and I replied saying that. I really thought I'd be lucky in avoiding this issue where MG obviously failed to compensate for in there gasket design department, it just shows it can really happen to anyone. :sad2:
The cars been running fine with no warning signs of it starting to go it was so strange. Driving back from work tonight (only a 10 - 15 minute drive) and I noticed the water temp rising very quickly. It ended up just below the red as I pulled up to my house, so I jumped out to check the engine bay expecting steam and water everywhere but nothing apart from there was no water left in my coolant! At this point I thought it may of leaked at some point, so I topped it up and ran the car for 5 mins around the block.
It ran very lumpy and I knew straight away there was a engine problem. After inpecting the coolant again, the water I topped up with now had oil patches in it spelling out my worst fear. Luckily I didn't let the car overheat so at least the head shouldn't need replacing, but im so gutted! Luckily my best friend works at a garage so I can get the head skimmed and the put in again at near trade cost hopefully but im still gonna be so skint, and carless for the next 2 weeks! Anyway don't mean to scare anyone with all this negativity, I just hope I can afford to keep my car going if anything else goes wrong on it!
Its ironic, I replied to a poll about everyones cars and the trouble they'd had and mine had been fine and I replied saying that. I really thought I'd be lucky in avoiding this issue where MG obviously failed to compensate for in there gasket design department, it just shows it can really happen to anyone. :sad2: