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Evening All,

Anyone know of a reputable T25 mechanic in the Plymouth area (or perhaps a keen forumite!). I need to get some advice on my van (1.9 watercoled petrol DG) . I'm concerned I may have baked the head gasket after overheating on the M5 coming back from London and need to get this tested before I start throwing cash at the cooling system.

To cut a long story short - van overheated a month ago - had it looked at away from home - non vw mechanic flushed, bled and filled system (diagnosed it on thermo &/or airlock) and all seemed tikkety bo for approx 1500 miles. Then it over heated again only this time the buzzer did not go off and I did not realise the temp was 'right up there' until it really was 'right up there'! I refilled & bled the system today and it seems to running as well as it did before. I did a compression test after warming the van up which came out as :
Cyclinder 1 - 155 psi
2 - 150 psi
3 - 152 psi
4 - 165 psi
which from what I understand is OK. However from what I have read on wiki tonight this is not totally reliable as diagnosis and I really want a second opinion from an expert!

All help and phone no's appreciated!
Cheers
Gareth

Phil Davies motors in Plymouth they are a specialist and there's a top bloke works there knows T3s called Dave Arnold
it's in the red light district apparently

Cheers Aidan - dropping it down there tomorrow

chuggers72 wrote:Cheers Aidan - dropping it down there tomorrow

Also there is Abbey Garage in Tavistock, they have a large customer base of 25 owners

Miller court, yes red light area, dont be there after dark dude lol

Cheers Phil - will keep that in mind. As for the red light district - i'm going stricly daylight hours!