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Head gasket repair 2006 Astra???

  • 04-12-2012 10:32am
    #1
    Dave11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭


    Morning,

    Wife's car packed it in on Sunday and mechanic says its the head gasket! Says gasket and water pump need repair. Quoting roughly €1,000 for work... I've no experience in this field lads... Can anyone advise is that the going rate for repair?

    Any advice gladly accepted??


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  • #2
    nowuckenfurries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭nowuckenfurries


    Dave11 wrote: »
    Morning,

    Wife's car packed it in on Sunday and mechanic says its the head gasket! Says gasket and water pump need repair. Quoting roughly €1,000 for work... I've no experience in this field lads... Can anyone advise is that the going rate for repair?

    Any advice gladly accepted??

    Seems high, ring around for other rates would be my advice,
    I had HGF in Rover 45 in 2008 & it cost EUR 750.00 to fix by big flashy now bankrupt garage in Dublin, it went again 2010 :( this time it was fixed by a Local Polish Indy Mechanic for EUR 270.00... It's still going grand now...


  • #3
    enumbers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 552 ✭✭✭enumbers


    with out seeing an list of everything that is been replaced its very hard to comment on the price.


  • #4
    lifer_sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 890 ✭✭✭lifer_sean


    I'm guessing 1.4 ? Not the most straightforward of cars to do the headgasket on. The head needs to be skimmed (normal for all cars), but on these there is a limit to how much can be skimmed off. Also may require use of a thicker than standard head gasket. If it's gone too far it will be time for a replacement engine. At least two threads on here in the last month on this topic.

    Water pump shouldn't need to be done unless that is what caused the engine to overheat in the first place.

    1000 a bit on the high side but not crazy, if the guy will stand over the job.


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