Hi there, I have a 2000' land rover discovery with 87,000 miles on it. It was having some problems overheating & I took it in to a local foreign auto shop. they said the problem was the head gaskets it ended up costing me a whopping 1,700! It's been about a month since they did the work & it started having the same EXACT problems again. The problems are as follows; first I hear a swishing sound behind the passenger side dash when I accelerate, then the heater isn't working well, then it overheats & needs coolant added. I took it into the same shop thinking its possible they didn't get the head gaskets right the first time...they just called & said its a leaky radiator!? Is it me or does this sound like I'm being ripped off?

 

You could be getting ripped off, is there a puddle of coolant in your driveway?
Continue to run it low on coolant and you will be buying a whole new engine for $6000.

 

Might want a phone quote from a radiator shop. A pressure test of the cooling system can show where the leaks are. Get a new thermostat when you do the radiator. You have an option for a 180F one in addition to the stock one.

When you say overheating, what point on the gauge did the pointer get to? Red light come on?

 

No puddle, it looks like its been slowly leaking coolant from the overflow hose. When it overheated it never got to the red & the light didn't come on either.