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Hi Klaus,
That is still two thousand dollars, which is not all that far from three.
My mechanic, who is not a Volvo specialist, told me that he ended up paying four thousand to a customer when he attempted to do a job this complex and ended up causing valves to be bent, etc.
He replaced the front left suspension coil on this car for a little over three hundred dollars total but after his experience he shied away from taking on the head gasket job on my car. I couldn't blame him.
I bought the car with the coil broken and I thought this was why it was on the market for fifteen hundred dollars. I gave the PO a thousand and figured that I could get the windshield [cracked] replaced for a total of about a thousand for the two repairs, leaving me with a two thousand dollar car that I could run for the winter and sell in the spring for about three. It has four good winter tires as well as a complete set of summers.
Then I found out what was really ailing the car! I am considering doing the work myself when the weather improves in the spring. But I can see that I would still have some major money outlays to do it properly. I did look through a fairly detailed procedure with good pictures laid out by DWM on the VOC website on how to change the head on a B4204S engine and I am considering following that to get to whatever problem is causing the constant coolant loss.
Engine oil is actually pretty good [not milky] and the car usually runs well but it does go through a lot of coolant on every trip.
My engine is a B5254T2 and I hope it is not too far off the engine worked on by DWM.
Regardless, thanks very much for your commentary.
Bob
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