Has anyone else had to have a new head gasket on their diesel VRS???

I think it's a bit strange that at 125K it needs a new head gasket and am wondering if it's just one of those things or a known problem??

Not come across any others that needed this doing. How do you know yours needs doing?

be tempted to check your oil cooler first as i've never sold a head gasket for a vrs where its failed but we do plenty of oil coolers which will give most of the same syptoms

sorry for the delay in responding, haven't had 5 minutes to myself!

Thanks for your responses.

The mechanic changed the oil cooler a couple of months ago as we had loads of oil in the water, strangely no water in the oil though!

We changed that first as it seemed a logical place to start, none of the usual issues associated with head gasket failure had presented themselves, power failure, overheating, gunk in the engine etc...

Couple of weeks ago I had a large pool of oil under the car, this was in the excellent weather we had (30 Degrees +), I still drove the car home and back to the office again the day after and still no "issues", except, as our mechanic told us, the car had managed to dump about 2 litres of oil into the water system, and onto the floor.

The has sort of led us back to believeing we had a head gasket problem, which has now been replaced.

I got the car back today and drove it some 60 miles through North London (the M25 was more of a car park than usual!) and popped the bonnet when I got home, there does not appear to be an oil problem any more!

It will have another flush next week when it has its MOT to see if there is any more residual oil in the water system.

Now the skeptic on me wonders if it could have been the oil cooler again, but what are the chances of a failure after 2 months??

Thanks!