Has anyone tried this stuff?? I know the good old saying you can't fix big jobs cheaply but there's always that 1 time thought IDE see if anyone has used it before as the reviews seem really good and i am going to try some anyway be a humid pig if no one has n maybe save people a few hundred quid ya need know but I agree before you say probably a very nieve lok

if its the rad weld sort of stuff that you put in radiator and run engine you will probably end up with it clogging the radiator and heater matrix too etc so you may end up making a big job even bigger. as you say .....

" I know the good old saying you can't fix big jobs cheaply "

theres also the saying if a jobs worth doing its worth doing properly

Best 1 that i have ever seen used is stuf called k seal me mate also swears by it

If you're going down this route then I'd vote for K Seal. It's less of a PITA than Radweld and the local classic car owners swear by it but it depends on the type of failure you have as to it's effectiveness.

K seal got 3,000 miles on my sons Rover 1.6, it had a head gasket leak to outside of the engine, not bores. The rest of the car died first (a mercy killing). But as any cheap fix, it's a time buyer not a repair. It was a no brainer for us as the car only needed to limp on 6 weeks, then it was a trip for it to be made into Chinese fridges.

I'v used Steel seal in a couple of Mitsubishi Pajero's with good results. One ran faultlessly for 18 months before selling it on.

However..Also tried it on a K series Rover/MG & a Passat TDI with no luck whatsoever & at £30 a time, its a pricey business!

£30 a time?! It's £7-8 max.

I have never known Steel Seal to work well on anything but Japanese cars.

If you insist on trying this (I recommend that you don't), then bypass the heater matrix by joining the hoses together with a piece of pipe.

£30 a time?! It's £7-8 max.

Where are you seeing it at that price???

just fix it properly, its a plaster at best, if its to get you home great, if its meant to fix it put the money into proper repair work

Shed loads

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=k-seal&_sacat=0&_odkw=k+seal&_sop=10&_osacat=0

Shed loads

http://www.ebay.co.u...op=10&_osacat=0

I'm not talking about K-seal.

Ah that will teach me to speed read, K seal, K series, oops.

I haven't read any of the replies, assume people are slating this stuff....

I've used it at work 3 times. It worked on two head gaskets and failed on one job which was a small hole on the core plug.

I rate this stuff quite well and would recommend it people for a quick fix.

I'm not talking about K-seal.

My bad I was on about K-Seal.

I've used http://steelseal.co.uk/ and it worked for me ! ask for Luke if you ring up there's a money back guarantee thats why i bought that one

It's basically sodium silicate (water glass) and you can buy the stuff quite cheaply. Lots of results and (important) how to guides if you google. Once a popular fix with dodgy 2nd hand car dealers. It does usually work. I recently used it with good effect om my son's 2004 Mini one. Cost about £10 and lots left over. No problems with clogging as with rad seal type products as it only changes to a solid at the very high temperatures within the gasket/head/block and won't seal waterways. If it doesn't fix the problem it won't do any harm. People generally reckon on it lasting up to 2 years.