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Originally Posted by javadog
When I was a Honda dealer, it took a lot longer than 15 minutes for my technicians to do a valve adjustment. And, they did them all day, every day, so they were quite good at it. It's amazing how the advent of the Internet has increased the productivity of some people.
My suggestion for the guy that gave rise to this thread would be to actually talk to the shop that quoted the work and find out what they are actually doing. When we did a valve adjustment on an engine, it was always in conjunction with other work. He ought to also be able to shop around a little. Any decent-sized city will have more than one Honda dealer, as well as a bunch of independent Honda shops.
JR
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I was once a service mgr at a large Honda dealer and I had some incredible techs and none of them could do a valve clearance check/adjustment in 15 mins. It is insane how people downplay any type of technicians work. I guess its a good thing that these guys don't come up with the flat rate guides . Nobody would ever make any money in the service business if they did
As far as the guy who said he wouldn't pay for any kind of "check", exactly how much time do you think is involved in checking over a vehicle? Do you just wait until things break before getting them repaired? How would you like your family to be traveling in a car and have something go wrong in a bad area or at night just because you think you were smarter than the vehicle engineers who don't have enough sense to determine at what point an issue may become ...well, an issue?