Head gasket price, recommendation for garage in South East

[antphelpsee]

Hi, a bit of a sob story here!

We tried to drive a 2.5 td aft to Croatia, but unfortunately the head gasket blew in the south of Belgium! Luckily we had European breakdown cover so were able to get the bongo recovered to Harris motors in Brighton, a bongo specialist who did the mot. They have quoted me around £1600 plus vat to fix, depending on if the valves are damaged... this seems a little high, so I was wandering is anybody knows how much this work should cost and if they can recommend a decent garage in the south east I could get it towed to?

Many thanks in advance,

Anthony Phelps

[missfixit70]

& is that a maximum price or starting price "depending on if the valves are damaged"?

[DanO]

That's a far price from Dave just for the head, he seems a very honest decent guy.

I took mine to him when it went but it's not there core business so put me in touch with API who are specialists and got the whole engine replaced....... I took the view that that was a better option in the long run, more expensive though. There is another guy on here who gets a good reputation and comes to you to do it in a day, think he is called Simon and used to work AVA - try a search?

[mikeonb4c]

There's a good one in South Croydon (have a search on that word) but I can't remember his name.