Originally Posted by
Brickhouse
It was more of a thought than a worry mate. Popped into my mind earlier as in what could prevent any head gasket blowing? Lets say a car has its oil changed every 1,000 miles and is driven with great care.....Would this car have less of a chance of a head gasket failure to say a car that has its oil changed every 20k and is driven very hard daily, or does it not work like that?
If you have a car which has long service intervals this is what the engine has been designed for and would not have any issues with the head gasket. If you drive the car hard or with great care again should not make any difference.Turbocharged cars running very high boost have to have extra safeguards to protect the head gasket ie long studs, multi-layered metal head gaskets etc but on a standard non-turbo engine there is no need to do anything extra and oil changes again have no direct link to failure.