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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5353333, member: 71"] There are two possible reasons for a head gasket to become faulty: 1 - don't pay sufficient attention to oil and/or coolant to the point where the car continually runs hot and the abuse leads to the head & gasket to become faulty. 2 - the car was poorly engineered to the point where either intentionally or unintentionally the head (among other things) begin to systematically fall apart after a certain amount of milage. In my youth (many decades ago) I bought one of thr first American made economy cars and fell victim to the latter. Through 40k miles the car was great. Then things started going bad every 5k miles or so. Head went at just pasy 60k miles and within a year there was no way to keep up with the repairs. I'm still convinced GM designed that car to fall apart on schedule just as it did. [/QUOTE]