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Cake day: November 11th, 2023

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  • Yep, sounds like a head gasket. I’ve had it before in a couple of cars, and lack of heating is one of the first symptoms of a real bad time - the cabin heater works off hot coolant coming out of the engine. So when hot coolant decides to hang around inside your block and make friends with your oil instead, it won’t warm the cabin.

    Replacing a head gasket isn’t the worst job in the world - but driving while overheating can do things like warp the head, which isn’t fun to fix.



  • You do have to look into this to work out what counts as a “problem”. “My phone keeps losing bluetooth connection” is as serious as “my differential exploded”.

    Infotainment “problems” were twice as numerous as any other category in this survey. It seems unfair to write off the whole car because of that, but it’s what bothers people nowadays as much as mechanical reliability.