Hi all,
what a great group! I've owned a 'T' reg 2.2DTI Frontera B Sport for about 6 years now, its been a fab car. It was used as a third car, mainly for transporting the dog around and getting runs back and forth to the tip etc. Proper workhorse.
The head gasket is about to go on it, its lost a fair bit of power due to loss of compression, is losing water etc. My mate at the local garage reckons it'll be at least £450 to fix it, maybe more if something goes wrong (snapped bolts etc etc). I can still use it every day (it only does 5 miles per day).
I need advice from someone on here, my question is:
Should I:
1) Scrap it and get £100 for the car minus a reconditioned injection pump (cost me £1200 about 6000 miles ago). I reckon I could get £200 for the pump so that would make £300 in total
2) Sell it as a runner for £400 or so
I've spent the usual on it keeping it on the road so there's loads of bills for it, it's a great car and I'm loath to scrap it. What do you lot reckon? Would someone want to buy it as a runner and fix the head gasket themselves? Is there a market for this type of purchase?
Any help anyone could give would me much appreciated, it'd certainly help one of these great cars from ending up on the scrap heap..