Talk:Head gasket

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[edit] Rover K Series Engine

UK readers - never ever buy a well-used secondhand Rover (eg Metro or 200) with a K Series engine. The notoriously dodgy composition and mounting of the head gasket means a) it WILL blow - usually once the car is past 70,000 miles and b) you will be left with £500+ repairs for a replacement (with a copper one) and invariably a new radiator too. The faults manifest in different ways: power reduction (leading to what feels like an alternator failure but without all the electrics going), uncontrolled heating and water loss and thermostat wobblies (due to lack of pressure sensing). Basically, if you got cappucino foam appearing in your water inlet, you got problems. And my sympathies. Plutonium27 (talk) 17:36, 19 January 2008 (UTC)