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Both Greenlight and Sky get a good write up on here and a number of other forums but it's interesting to hear stories like this.
Personally, Sky refused to quote me and were actually rather rude down the phone because my Astra wasn't a performance car and didn't have modifcations
I've just bought the ZyXEL NSA-320 after a colleague told me he was using the NSA-310 and it was really good.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004BE6MVW/ref=ox_ya_os_product
There no need to go selling the car.
Even if the head gasket has went, which it probably hasn't, its cheapish fix on these cars anyway.
As said, give the car an oil and coolant change and you'll be fine :)
Just put it in for a service then? Or better still, do it yourself?
Oil, oil filter, air filter, fuel filter and a set of spark plugs will cost you £50-75 on a 1.2 I would imagine.
Depending on the year of your car, I doubt the cambelt will be needing done at that mileage however it may be due...
OBDII standards didn't come in until late 2001. Cars made before that aren't compatible with that.
There are code readers that will work however, i.e. RS Tuner and Autel FR704
(Unix command line from your local machine) scp root@bonxy:/backup.sql /localdirectory
or
Use something like WinSCP or Filezilla to login and move your files back across
Have people never ever heard of comparison websites? Even as a rough guide.
It's actually a joke how many times these threads pop up every single day !
You still don't get it do you?
Kwik Fit will f**k it up. Then you'll have to take it to a specialist to sort it out, costing more money.
They haven't started the work yet so it would be simple enough to arrange recovery and get it to a specialist and have it done properly, first time.
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