Hi everyone I've just recently bought a subaru wrx wagon  and it's constantly over heating even without thrashing it, I've just been to have the thermostat replaced to be told, "there wasn't a thermostat fitted in the first place " the garage man told me that he thinks the head gasket may have gone and that's why they have removed it, so the problem I have is..... do i try and find somewhere that will replace the head gasket and at what cost, or get rid of the car at a loss, If anyone can help me or suggest any other symptoms that's causing this problem

P.s there dosnt seem to be any water in the oil which I thought was the first sign of head gasket problems

P.p.s I live in West yorkshire

I’m sorry to hear about that mate.

I have to get my head gaskets done which is a pain. One way you can check is to get a kit to test the coolant.

I got one from drheadgasket and it revealed exhaust gasses are leaking into the coolant.

ive been quoted £1700 by a specialist in Scotland to do mine but it includes a new timing belt kit as well 

2.5 are renowned for dropping headgaskets.

 

£1700 sounds very cheap for a headgasket on a 2.5. You need to full strip and replace the crank bearings as they have a tendancy to be damaged when the HG goes as they get pinched.

As mentioned get a test done - You may have an air lock, is it losing coolant?

It's just boiling away so you could say yes it's loosing coolant 😲

On 8/22/2021 at 4:44 PM, Tidgy said:

2.5 are renowned for dropping headgaskets.

 

£1700 sounds very cheap for a headgasket on a 2.5. You need to full strip and replace the crank bearings as they have a tendancy to be damaged when the HG goes as they get pinched.

Now that sounds like more money, oh well we only live once and it's a car I love and seem to be in short supply, so to hell with the money, if it gets it going back to full health, then so be it 

On 8/22/2021 at 4:44 PM, Tidgy said:

2.5 are renowned for dropping headgaskets.

 

£1700 sounds very cheap for a headgasket on a 2.5. You need to full strip and replace the crank bearings as they have a tendancy to be damaged when the HG goes as they get pinched.

I realised that mine is a 2.0. Sorry for the misdirection.

Although I think mine may also be more of it needs a bottom end rebuild.

Worth it though.

what milage is it on? if your planning to keep the car long term i;d bite the bullet and get it fulled rebuilt, no worries abotu what might happen in the future then

I'm expecting some money so the engine will be removed, taken apart, skimmed head, check pistons etc, new gasket, new cam belt, plus anything else they can see wrong with it, new. Plugs, oil / filter, fuel filter and also new inter cooler and cooling fans.

Then once all that I'd done, get it remapped upto 300 bhp

On 8/27/2021 at 9:28 PM, Tidgy said:

what milage is it on? if your planning to keep the car long term i;d bite the bullet and get it fulled rebuilt, no worries abotu what might happen in the future then

109,562 miles on clock

If you are going that far I would put in a new set of bearings as well.

at 110k then i'd def recomend a full refresh, the berings wiull be pretty worn i expect