Quote Originally Posted by pachepa View Post
That's the thing!! I asked about it Valve Clearance check straight away. Was told that they just "listen" and if it "sounds" ok then its fine since those engines are generally good. :-/

I'm not surprised by this at all. As I mentioned before, even just about every new car service manual states that valve clearance needs to be checked and adjusted, yet despite the number of new cars people that I know and I, have owned in the past, have yet to hear that the valves has been adjusted by the servicing dealer commensurate with the cost.

You see, when the word check appears in the service manual to the dealers it is a goldmine because that's exactly what they would do which would only take a few minutes yet they would charge you for the whole hour.

Everytime there is a major service that needs to be done they'll say it is going to take 5 hours or more, however more often than not, I can see more than half of that the car just sit around not being worked on!