patricklcm
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- 2002 Mazda Protege5
overheated my car and blew my head gasket. overheated it 4 times in the past 6 weeks actually, have been taking it to a shop, then CEL came on. took it to another shop, as i was getting frustrated with the first one's inability to solve the problem. this new shop tells me i blew my head gasket, so coolant is leaking into the 3rd cylinder. to replace the head gasket alone would be $2400. the mechanic is telling me that putting a brand new head gasket on a car with as high mileage as mine (little under 135K) could cause problems down the road (he explained it to me, don't exactly remember what he said though), so he tells me he can put an engine with low mileage in there for another $1000. so that's $3400 in total. which is more than half the value of my car. so i'm thinking of just buying a new car. but then i thought, hey, new engine, that's like having close to a new car... shouldn't have any problems with it for a while then after they fix all this up. so, what would you guys do in my situation? thoughts?