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Not mentioning any names here.

I've just looked at a used dealer website, purely out of interest and noticed a quote they had made.

"please note: when buying these cars always get proof that the head gasket has been upgraded recently and the bill is at least £700+. Anything under it has not been done properly"

Am I too sensitive or is that just a little bit naughty?

No you're not being too sensitive.
And they are just showing how little car dealers actually know.

When did price guarantee quality of work?

There are 2 main mgf dealers in peteborough this statement comes from one and is directed at the other.
over the past few months i have been told the same story about the 2 of them that cars have been bought with supposedly everything done only to find out that it had not !!!!

Titanic cost quite a bit.....

Exactly. Jon Norris has done some top notch work on my car and I think that quote is an insult to people like him and their skills. Grrrrr

Name and shame the dealer website .... we can then e-mail them en-masse quoting Rough Luck, MGRover Solutions, Dave& Kayleigh, MGF Reborn etc, etc. and put them straight.

Oh eck, I'll shut up. This is going deep.

I remember a thread like this from long ago :tumbleweed:

Softly~Softly wrote: wrote:

I remember a thread like this from long ago :tumbleweed:

Do tell .......

http://www.the-t-bar.com/en/component/kunena/9-mgf-tf-pitstop/55183-trophy-cars#55193

Well I'm gonna throw a tiger amongst the pigeons here, I run a garage and I wouldn't put anything with a k series engine on my sales pitch even though I own a TF, the problem comes from the fact that you only make small profits on cheap cars like I sell, so for example my TF cost £1400, I sell it for £2000, it then comes back under warranty because the head gasket has gone, so I spend another £300 sorting it, all of a sudden it makes no financial sence to sell it.

I don't think anyone would disagree with your policy.

What is not understood is a statement that if you don't spend over £700 on a head gasket it hasn't been done right.

I could write a long list a lot of head gasket jobs costing £700- £1600 that were a complete and utter botch up!