I literally have had nothing but trouble with my car for the past few months. So after trying to figure out why my car kept over heating we finally got it looked at and the head gasket had gone so just as I had bought a house I had to pay out a £1000 (inc all parts like timing belt etc etc) for that to be sent off and sorted. When I got the car back it was still really smokey and stunk of burning oil so I took it back to the garage and they have told me my bottom end is possibly going, before I do anything drastic I'm going to get it tested with some diagnostic tool my friend has but chances are I am going to have to do a rebuild on the bottom end as I won't just do half a job. So that's going to cost another load of money! Anyway after being told that a week later I was driving towards my work car park and they had put nice new electric gates up BUT they had also put a big bit of metal poking out of the ground... Well I practically got beached on it and struggled getting off of it... When I finally got off I realised I had put a hole in my exhaust or something like that as I could hear it blowing... Couldn't see anything underneath so lifted the bonnet and saw this lovely crack in my downpipe!!! I am slowly starting to dislike my car at the moment!!! I am hoping my luck will start to change soon! I'm going to have to carry blocks of wood around with me to get in and out of the car park now too!! Aghh!