Hi all I'm doing this on my father in laws behalf, He has a 2004 C-Max 2ltr diesel just got it 3 weeks ago and was running fine for the first week then all of a sudden it overheated, he stopped it on my drive way and it's been there ever since, I have looked at it and it has some weird symptoms........... from the second you switch the engine on it's overflowing from the expansion bottle, the temp gauge sits at 65 for ages then suddenly jumps up, the heating is stil coming out hot, there is very smelly smoke from the exhaust but the engine is stil smooth as it was on the first day, a friend said head gasket but when mine went I lost all my heating and it was churning thick smoke out this is like a cold start I've also been told these cars rarely chuck a head gasket.... I'm no mechanic and know nothing about cars I'm all about bikes but the poor bloke is gutted he payed 1700 quid for this out of his pension and we have just been told it's 700 quid for the head gasket he really can't afford to be mucked about by some back street garage so any advice you can give would be gold dust to us right now.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.