Cost of 15k service

[Viney]

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

The reason the dealer only wants an hours labour for the valve check is because it is really easy to do.You can do it too if you can do the other service bits like oil/filter changes.What the dealer will want serious dosh for is doing valve shim adjustments IF they find them to be needed.If you check them yourself for free you will know if they need doing,and can start to budget accordingly,but SVs rarely seem to need reshimming.

59K in and mine still havent been done. They do need checking though which i will do at the weekend (If its dry!)

[northwind]

Yeah, anyone can check their own clearances, it's as hard as putting a bookmark in a book Though it's another one of those jobs which is easy, but has the potential for dropping things down the cam chain tunnel into the engine, which would be Bad. Changing shims isn't for the unskilled though, since we're shim-under-bucket (but then that's also why we almost never have to reshim- mine is up to 40-odd thousand miles, which isn't much, but it's also had new intake cams and its old intake cams turned into exhaust cams, the tolerancing is good enough that they all fitted without reshimming! Which over a 5-year production period is frankly nuts)