Like the title says, I got my 2016 Chrysler 200 V4 head gasket repaired last March. It was a very long process with the mechanic running me around. I had all of the typical symptoms; cylinder misfire, white exhaust, no external leak, milky oil, very fast coolant draining, etc. Now, I have the same issues again. I took it back to the same shop that I originally went to and they said that coolant is definitely seeping into the engine, but they need $1000 to teardown the engine (6 hours of work with their very high hourly rate) to see if it's the head gasket again or a cracked/warped cylinder head. They'd fix it for free if it's a head gasket but I'm on the line for the fix/replacement if it's a cracked head. This is the only shop near me that does these head gasket replacements at all. This is a Chrysler dealer, although it's not the dealer the car came from.

The car has about 120k miles so it really shouldn't be having these issues, but I bought it used at 105k miles two years ago so who knows how it was treated before that.

My question that actually directly pertains is: is it at all likely that it's actually the head gasket that failed again, or do you think that it's probably a cracked head itself? I have no clue what I'd do if it's a cracked head, but I'd probably have to get rid of the car if that's the case, and I don't want to spend $1000 for them to just tell me that I need to junk the car. I want to make an informed decision about this, and if it's far more likely that it's not a head gasket, then I might as well cut my losses. Any advice about this situation in general would be appreciated.

 

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Head gaskets dont fail heads warp did you have the head machined when the head was off? a modern head gasket is 3 layers of steel what do you think the odds of 170psi of compression blowing threw 3 layers of steel?

 

They should've machined it but who knows with that stupid *** shop. I've decided I'm just getting rid of that car.