My renault respace water bottle is filling up with sludgy oil , i do suspect fail play from garage !?

after putting my car into a garage as part ex the garage owner said whilst i took the new car for a test drive , he would take my car to the garage and have a look at it , when i came back he said did i know i had a possible head gasket problem and then undid the water bottle to show me and it was full up totally with sludgy oil , i took the bottle off and totally cleaned it out but the car temperature gage went up and warning light came on , and the water bottle was half full with sludgy oil again , i feel that the garage may have done this to lower my part ex price as they offered me a low price due to this problem any help really appreciated ! i will add that before this i had no problems with engine and to best of my knowledge no head gasket issues !

Answers:
Buy a Ford.
Get a real mechanic to look at it right away.
report him to the office of fair trading. it's cold comfort that they will not be able to help you, but he will then be on record as a bad dealer <it may be he has done that to others and they reported him already>

get head gasket fixed somewhere else and buy from another dealer
It sounds like a head gasket. The garage could not have removed head and wrecked the gasket unless they had your car for a day. They would have to be morons to the exreem if they did this. I suspect they did nothing and you have had "car sellers bad luck." Cars know when you are going to get rid of them. and that's when they teach you a lesson. You can change the gasket in about 3 hours. If you see a great big screw driver gouge in the old one, then you can be certain that the dealer is indeed, a man with the intellectual agility of a small soap dish! Nobody would waste their time doing such a thing and there are far easier ways to sabatage a car, ways that don't invove the dealer having to work for hours/days putting it right again.
It sounds like you have just been unlucky, i am 39 and have been in the motor trade for 23 yrs and i have never known a garage do something like that, also the problem of a head gasket can happen at anytime, in theory it would be possible for them to sabatage your vehicle but they would need the vehicle for approx 2 days to dismantle it and rebuild it, i would just put this down to bad luck
if you've driven this vehicle carefully for a number of years/months then this would explain no faults prier to them taking it,
an explaination could be that the garage have thrashed/over-revved the engine causing the head gasket to blow?
the down side is without proof of this your stuffed!
repairing this problem could cost hundreds of pounds?
the garage is not acting foulyy, with head gasket problems the two liquids ie water and oil do mix if there is a problem you will find oil in the water reserviours and the oil o nthe dipstick will get a milky residue indicating water presence
sounds like your head gaskit has gone

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