Probably going to out myself here as I know some of my friends are MN’s.
Last week I bought a vehicle, a vehicle I had been wanting for a long time. Being a older model I knew that buying it was a bit risky. I went to look at it, took someone with me to check it over. Everything seemed fine but owner didn’t let us drive it due to insurance. Checked all the normal things, oil cap clean, not smokey and everything where it should be. Was a little worried that there was no paper work to indicate a belt change so knocked the price down to take into consideration I would need to get a new belt and water pump. It had a 12 month MOT. Went to pick it up the following week once I had sorted insurance and tax. When I drove it away the heaters were blowing hot, thought this was odd as it was a sunny day, what have the heaters on. After driving for a hour a light started flashing on the dash, I pulled over and called my dp who was driving back in his car, he came and looked and the coolant pressure was high. We continued to drive back slowly and kept stopping (a 45 minutes drive). Up until today it has been sat on my drive as I couldn’t get anyone to look at it. Today I found a garage near by to look and confirmed my fears that the head gasket has gone, I’m looking at a huge bill to fix it or a possible new engine.
I have contacted the person who sold it to me and all I got back was ‘it was fine when I had it’.
I am obviously very very upset, I spent my savings on this and although to some it’s not a massive amount of money, to me it’s everything I had.
Where do I stand?