I dropped it off on wednesday. Questioned the service manager. He said that The manual is printed for the UK, Canada & Nth Europe market where they have solid tappets due to cold climate. He gets people asking regularly because its in the service schedule.
In Asia and Australia, they used Hydraulic Lifters. I said ok, but it sounds like BS, even though he is a really nice guy who clearly knew a fair bit about them.
Got a call that the tensioner (which they do not normally replace) was leaking grease (probably more due to age than anything else) and the bearings in the idlers on the serpentine were on their way out (gritty). So had to do those as well.
Exit $400. And it wouldn't be ready that day.
I can quite happily whip the Camira timing belt off, inside an afternoon, but took one look at this and went 'I am probably going to cause $3000 worth of damage jut trying to do this'
