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Thanks for everyones help. In the end I took the car to the garage and let them do the work. The car is now back with new head gasket.

Assuming I have no tools at the moment what is needed to take off and replace the head gasket? tools... :lol: you will need: jack jack stands good socket set torque wrench workshop manual time and patience money to take the head to get machined new fluids ways to tell head gasket has gone: bubbling...

:( Thanks for your reply MMamdouh. Is there any way to tell whether it's the head gasket or the head without taking it apart? How easy/difficult is replacing the head gasket (compared to other cars)? I'm not going to attempt it myself but have friends who've changed head gaskets on other cars. Is th...

Recently the engine overheated on our 2000 1.5 Lanos. One of the hoses had a small hole and all of the coolant came out. I've replaced the hose but the coolant continues to slowly leak out and needs to be topped up at least once a week. I've checked all over but can't find where it's leaking. I don'...

I thought I'd update this in case it helps anyone else. The car got worse and worse to the point it could hardly move and would keep stalling. Once it was running it would be fine but then I'd turn it off and on again (engine still warm) and it'd keep stalling. I took it to the garage and they could...

Hi, Thanks for your replies. It's about 45 degrees here so turning off the AC completely is not my prefered option ;) but I can turn off the AC when stopped. The car is automatic so I can't easily give it more revs before pulling away. In fact, trying to put my foot down when pulling away is almost ...

Hi all, I've searched and read a few posts on this forum (as well as on Google) but can't find anyone with the same problem/solution. About a month ago I bought an automatic Daewoo Lanos 1.5 (ETEC engine). It's 2000 and has done about 180,000 KMs. The previous owner had it for most of the cars life ...