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For the record
my wife bought me the car for my birthday, picked it up Dec 8,46K on clock, was told by garage, all relevant information would be posted, mots, ownership slip, warranty book, service history etc. Nothing! Garage contacted me that weekend saying they had made an oversight, we have sold you a car with no MOT, they had car back for a day, done me a few little niggle jobs, oh and they welded an old cat back in the exhaust. Yes, honest! ps sent me wrong warrant and service books off a 25. Over the festive period i noticed i was having to add a little coolant, thats all!! nothing special no gunk, nothin, so thought i had a minor leak. so thought because i have a warranty, i would have a quote from main dealers, not my mates garage, they said water pump was failing, quoted £700+ for pump & 1 belt, £900+ for the 3 belts, warranty only covers £500, so went my mates place, he said water pump HAD failed before and been bodged, not changed, engine must have heat spiked, in his opinion HG HAD gone, he informed me being a dealer himself you must allow the garage i bought the car from to do the work, according to trading standards.
car went back to purchasing garage, after the disaster of the welded cat i was less than confident lets say, was told over the over nxt few days oh yes we have found one of the gaskets may have possibly only slightly to have failed, wanted to go up check the heads were off, was politely told it was all in good hands!
got car back 2 weeks ago, seemed fine, had to top up initially next day with about 1ltr+ of coolant because of a suspected airlock, which they asked me to do, little bit suss as they should have sorted that i thought but hey i missed my car and they knew what they were doing. Then this thurs night en route to work noticed temp gauge slightly above middle, NOT HIGH!! put heater fan on hot and high, cooled engine till pulling 1st available petrol staion, allowed engine to cool, topped up with coolant carried in car, got to work, done shift come out at 6, lifted bonnet saw expansion tank still topped to line, again just a one off i thought so drove home, temp gauge never moved of mean, middle or centre, whatever you call it after warming up. As always i let the car idle for about a min after a longish (motorway especially) journey before switchin off, old habits i suppose, could hear auxillary coolant fan running on high, temp gauge on middle still, remember!!, stereo was on, fan on 2, big exhausts so didn't hear it on, now very concerned as i can now smell, yes smell trouble, allowed to cool topped up with approx 2 ltrs turned on engine, which now sounds like a skeleton playing with him/herself in a biscuit tin, not healthy, plus there is cream cheese spewing out the filler cap after i took it off, classic cross contamination, oil in water, water in oil, if i knew how to to put piccys on by now, i would.
i wont bore you with the garages response but i give you my word, as a MG fan and fellow perv!!, that this is the truth the whole truth and nothin but the truth your honour
Paul