hey guys, my local dealer wanted $500 to do a valve adjustment. Does this sound right? My car's in need of one really bad, but $500 seems a lot. Let me know how much you guys paid for yours. Thanks

 

I was told $400 by the dealer and $330 by hondatech,and I gotta leave the car overnight.I'd rather go to the dealer cus' then I'll get a loaner

 

How will you know when its time for a valve adjustment? weird noise starts to occur? I've got 40k miles on my 03 CL-S

 

click click click oh massive amounts of clicking!!!!!!

 

my tech lives down the street from me...he said he'd check it for 50 $ and if they need adjusting totalt price 75$

 

Is there any problem if you don't get the valves adjusted? I've been hearing the ticking noise for about 70k miles and it was reduced after I had my 105k service done, but I'm not sure if they adjusted the valves or not.

 

If your under warranty it should be covered. If not the $500 range isn't a bad price. It's not a great price either though.
The car does have to be cold & most of the top end needs to come off. If you have the tools You can do it yourself. The spec is on a label under the hood. It's not that hard to do really. the biggest scare is taking all that stuff off.

 

if you can remember where everything goes, and don't freak out about taking pretty much all the intake manifold stuff, and the valve covers, and have a tq wrench and the $5 feller gauges for the measurements, it's a LONG process, but fairly simple. Just extremely tedious.

 

How many miles do you have your car?

 

how often do you guys adjust your valves?

 

I personally have barely 60k miles, and my valves tick like crazy. Pisses me off so damn bad. Once I get my cams installed, I'll be adjusting my own valves... if I don't do the cam install myself, in which case I'll do both at the same time.

 

i have 57k but my valves are ticking like crazy...=/

 

Mine tick slightly, but so did my 4cyl '95 Accord. Damn thing always ticked. I had the valves 3 times and it always made that damn noise. Now my CL is starting to make that noise. Weird.

 

I have 40k miles and my valves are drivin me fukin crazy...shouldnt be there this early imo. esp on a car that was $30k+ to begin with.

 

Well then, I'm glad I bought an extended warranty. No way I'm paying that amount of cash for a dealer to work on my car....

 

My Mechanic did mine it took 1.15 hr. He charged me $ 90.00 he also worked 9 years at acura I stayed there while he did it.

Some ones getting ripted Off

 

well we all know the dealerships are really stealerships. Ask around at nearby honda/acura mechanics, I'm sure you could get it from them for a lot cheaper.

 

The car is supposed to tick... It's a Honda.. it's common, don't worry... now if it's really chattering, then you may actually need an adjustment.
My INtegra GSR ticks, my boss's AV6 ticks (20k miles on it), friends dad's stock CLS-6 ticks w/15k miles on it.
I don't believe the CL/CLS needs a valve adjustment until 100k or so.
I remember mine would tick like crazy after being driven hard... but it wasn't anything I couldn't live with. Besides do you all drive Ace Ventura style ?