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Originally Posted by roastbeef
I think they are trying to pinch you for a couple grand. There is no way 1L of oil or even close to that amount is coming out of the valve covers... there would be burnt oil smoke coming out of the hood. Pop the hood and just look around. There may be some residue, but not to the emergent extent that they are saying.
After a bearing job, a lot of oil is removed from the engine- more than your standard oil change. It just has a lot of time to drip out of there. If they filled it conservatively, it might have just burned a little bit and needs a top-off.
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Thank you. This explanation of the large oil loss makes sense and while I don’t doubt there is a valve cover gasket leak I can’t see how that much oil could be leaking without a lot of oil all over the place. The dealer wanted $1300 for the valve cover gasket and **$7,100** !!! for resealing the timing chain cover.