Head Gasket

[sioneon]

Hi, I'm asking this on behalf of a relative.

The head gasket has gone on a MK3 1.0 ecoboost, roughly what is involved to replace it? 

How long would a garage take to replace it? Would they need to do anything extreme such as remove the engine?

Cheers

[TomsFocus]

Not worth doing, removing the head is a major task (removing half the engine basically), and once they do remove it, they'll probably find the head has cracked or warped anyway.  Likely to be cheaper and definitely quicker to fit a good used engine instead.

Do you know if it's overheated at all?  

[sioneon]

There's been no indication of overheating on the dash readout, there was coolant left in the tank but another couple of days and it would probably have been empty.

[TomsFocus]

5 minutes ago, sioneon said:

There's been no indication of overheating on the dash readout, there was coolant left in the tank but another couple of days and it would probably have been empty.

Ok well that's a good sign, these 1.0EBs are usually scrap once they've overheated!

Has any diagnosis been done to suggest it's the HG at fault?  Any symptoms other than low coolant?  Has it had the degas hose recall done?

 

[sioneon]

It was spotted during an MOT. It's had the degas recall years ago.

Not sure how it was spotted other than low coolant but I'll find out later.