Originally Posted by
Rich170
Look at the radiator at the front of the car, the top black rubber hose on the right hand side as you look at it. Follow it back to where it meets the engine, it attaches to a plastic block. Under the hose on the plastic block is a bung. They always leak from there, you will notice water staining around it and on the gearbox where it drips down.
If you take the oil filler cap off, do you have any white sludge on the bottom of it? If not, and it has stopped using water then to be honest I'd stop worrying about it....
If it was a failed headgasket then the rad weld would not have fixed it at all. IMO the garage you took it too were just trying to get money out of you for a job that didnt need doing!
I will check now and get back to you.
As far as the garage doing this or that and im not sure about this to be honest. Its kind of i scratch your back you scratch mine. My family have done alot of work on their garage and in return we get cheap rates when we take out cars there, only pay for the actual cost of the part, low labour rates etc...I just get the feeling they were sick of us (me) taking the cars there all the time (last 2 months have been hell with the cars, one thing after another absolute hell!)
They have been nothing but good to us. Just the way they handled this particular issue didn't seem right to me, so will get second opinion.
Thanks for the help everyone!