biggeorge
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Hi just had my MT09 TRACER a 24000 mile service and 5 valves needed to be re shimmed,so total cost was £565.00.
expensive , never paid as much for any of my cars !!
expensive , never paid as much for any of my cars !!
cams out to change shims hence high labour cost.seems flippin expensive! I thought shims would be no more than £5 each.
I'm sure my dealer quoted me approx £350 for the 24000 service (mines now at 20200 miles)
Is there a big difference between checking and swapping over?
Chuck are the people getting the valves adjusted reporting running and starting problems? Cos with 5 valves needed adjustments I would have thought there would be some running issues like bit of noise or poor starting.common problem by all accounts! Here on an Australian forum nearly everyone is having the shims done too and here in Oz it's a little over a $1000 for that 40k service
cheers chuck
No most are just as surprised as you are hearing about it. They never new anything was wrong! yet all had tight valve clearances?Chuck are the people getting the valves adjusted reporting running and starting problems? Cos with 5 valves needed adjustments I would have thought there would be some running issues like bit of noise or poor starting.
Just did the 40K service on mine (hubby did the valve clearances) and it needed 2 shims replacing, everything else was ok...just need to tighten the new chain a little.common problem by all accounts! Here on an Australian forum nearly everyone is having the shims done too and here in Oz it's a little over a $1000 for that 40k service
cheers chuck