well, as most of you know, i recently did some valve clearance work myself.. Part of this was removing the valve cover, on removing my valve cover i noticed 2 crush washers on the side of the valve cover on a 17mm banjo oil fitting, they looked pretty discoloured... Now id assumed inspections 1/2 come with new valve cover gaskets, crush washers ( since their like 1 quid), spark plug gaskets and the rubber tension washers that fit under all the Valve cover bolts ( basically the gasket kit for the valve cover) , this lot comes to around 80 quid id guess? for o.e parts..
well i fired redish an email and asked the question and was pretty surprised that they didn't replace the gaskets as part of the recent inspection and do not in terms of the s54 engine at all due to their experience of them being able to be re-used and they are able to offer a cheaper inspection service price... it was never discussed as i naturally assumed this would be part of the service, but it seems in their experience they don't change them and re-use the old gaskets. Personally this seems crazy to me for sake of the little extra but also why not offer it or at least let the customer choose? i mean the copper washers definitely should be replaced as part of good practice imo as they deform once Tq'd.
whats everyones opinion on this?? And are you having new gaskets on your inspections or do you even know what your indie / dealer is doing Re this ??
personally for me the gaskets should be replaced on inspection 1/2 and its another thing to ask on your future service work. The gasket re-used on me car must would have been on the car for 4 years at that point and been heat cycled more times than i care to imagine, unless simpson re-use them too in that case it would have been on the car since new...
Whenever i work on my cars i replace gaskets as part of good practice and just how I've learned things tbh, i replaced ALL the gaskets on my car during my recent work even though i Assumed they'd just been replaced, again just a precaution..... no-one will love your car like you do i guess. Maybe it just me but this really surprised me, i wonder what the dealers do?
well i fired redish an email and asked the question and was pretty surprised that they didn't replace the gaskets as part of the recent inspection and do not in terms of the s54 engine at all due to their experience of them being able to be re-used and they are able to offer a cheaper inspection service price... it was never discussed as i naturally assumed this would be part of the service, but it seems in their experience they don't change them and re-use the old gaskets. Personally this seems crazy to me for sake of the little extra but also why not offer it or at least let the customer choose? i mean the copper washers definitely should be replaced as part of good practice imo as they deform once Tq'd.
whats everyones opinion on this?? And are you having new gaskets on your inspections or do you even know what your indie / dealer is doing Re this ??
personally for me the gaskets should be replaced on inspection 1/2 and its another thing to ask on your future service work. The gasket re-used on me car must would have been on the car for 4 years at that point and been heat cycled more times than i care to imagine, unless simpson re-use them too in that case it would have been on the car since new...
Whenever i work on my cars i replace gaskets as part of good practice and just how I've learned things tbh, i replaced ALL the gaskets on my car during my recent work even though i Assumed they'd just been replaced, again just a precaution..... no-one will love your car like you do i guess. Maybe it just me but this really surprised me, i wonder what the dealers do?
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