hallsy67

well took the car into main dealer on thursday as the temp went up to 3/4 and got the call to say its headgasket its an 06 sti with 20k on the clock, its being stripped to find out why, ive not hammered it and the shift light was set to 6k so will just have to wait and see, oh well while its stripped i may as well price up pistons etc

[Davey]

"Went up to 3/4"... Was there any other evidence of CHG failure?

mart360

if its not hammered as you say why do you have/ need a shift light?

surely for optimum driving you should be changing gear at 3K

and how do you get to 6K? nail it in every gear to the 6K mark, then change up?

one thing i can say with certainty......a main stealer aint going to be cheap


Mart

hallsy67

only next day when i checked the car there was surplus water in the expansion tank, but on the drive to the garage the temp needle stayed at normal,

Shark Man

MY06....warrantee?

If it is = £0

If not = ££££

Don't think late models suffer from any particular inherant HG problems, but thats not to say they won't fail anyway. Although I'd suspect a very minor leak in the cooling system to have occured, causing air lock which in turn can cause a HG failure.

hallsy67

well ok i dont hammer it everywhere yes i do give it a blip now and again but never to red line and to be honest not all that often as the car is only just warm when i reach work. i wont know for sure until they strip it, but there wondering if its the block, il find out soon enough

hallsy67

i did mention to the mechanic that on the day it happened i had a gurgling sound from behind the dash on start up so maybe the problem

[Davey]

Was it losing anywater? how long did it take to over heat? Did the pipes feel solid?

I think your dealer might be pulling a fast one!

You say you heard a gurgling noise.. sounds more like an airlock, maybe it did slighly over heat, coolant flowed into the expansion/resoviour but didnt get drawn back up afterwards.

hallsy67

didnt seem to lose water, but to be fair when i dropped the car off the expansion tank water was bubbling and i get on really well with the mechanic so dont think for 1 minute hes pulling a fast one. hes asked me to pop in so il pop down tomorrow probably to see whats what

Heard it all before

Surely a warranty claim

a_little_feisty

Same thing happened to mine at 23k ... Had oil consumption issues from 10k onwards and then HG went at 23k and all pistons had to be replaced ... There is a known fault on the 2.5 engine and you should have no problems with getting it fixed under warranty.

killa

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unless it's modded..

powerman1

whats all this business about didnt hammer it? Its a bluddy sports car and as such is designed to be driven hard without thinking its going to break at the first hurdle.Give it some and enjoy..

automodellistagt

i think its a little tongue in cheek

alcazar

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So..............what happened then?

Alcazar

hallsy67

il let you know