hi...i am new to this forum thing...but I love my volvo v40 It is an 02 automatic turbo 1.9..well i have put so much money into this car I can't tell you. I had a salvaged engine put in it. It had 82K on it. I finally got it back and drove it tow weeks before i had to have it towed back to the shop the engine had overheated..it had thick golden brownish goo in the entire cooling system. the guys working on it tried to tell me it had industrial type hand cleaner..you know soap put in it and that is what made it overheat and blow the gasket. I got on line and found photos of what it looks like when you blow a head gasket and it looks just like what I have here. they are trying to tell me that someone sabotaged my engine. I am trying to figure out a couple things...
1. does this engine have an aluminum (or whatever metal) head gasket?
2. is it possible that whatever gasket it had was compromised somehow and had a slow leak into the coolant system that eventually blew out? and siezed up the coolant system?
Or is it a deal that if the gasket was bad I wouldn't have been able to get off the lot with it...I feel like I am being jacked around here and I am so frustrated and sick of it. HELP thanks...
1. does this engine have an aluminum (or whatever metal) head gasket?
2. is it possible that whatever gasket it had was compromised somehow and had a slow leak into the coolant system that eventually blew out? and siezed up the coolant system?
Or is it a deal that if the gasket was bad I wouldn't have been able to get off the lot with it...I feel like I am being jacked around here and I am so frustrated and sick of it. HELP thanks...