My car has been in the garage for the last 2 days for the rocker cover gasket to be changed (to hopefully cure an oil leak).

 

Any one know how long this job is meant to take?  It is my understanding that the garage are resolving this as a gesture of goodwill, as they sold the car like it (and it was flagged up on the MOT and marked up as "overfill / spill of oil").

 

However given it is taken them quite some time, I figure I should be armed with the official time to change it incase they relent on the initial agreement.

 

Thanks :-)

I imagine it mostly depends on if they have the parts in stock?

I dropped the car off on Monday evening (4.00pm), and they phoned early the next morning to say "rocket cover gasket, we are ordering one from Skoda as it will be thicker/better quality"  followed by "it should be with us later today, or the wed morning".

 

Guess I am just preparing myself for the worse.  At least work haven't demanded I make the 120mile round trip into work in my bike yet ;-)

I remember somebody oh here posting the same about their golf fitted with the same engine,i think they had to wait for the sealant used to set which took 12/24 hours if i remember correctly. I think his had to go back again as it leaked due to incorrect sealant being used the first time.

This is a non-VAG garage, so I'm half expecting them to try and seal it with cheese or something ;-)

 

Do gaskets just fail (60k miles), or is it likely that someone has has it off previously?  The car was a lease car before I bought it, so I would imagine the dealers would have rinsed every last penny from the lease company for maintenance!  I only got the service book with the standard interval stamps in, no real history of what else had been done (apart from a new clutch at 30k miles :eeeek: )

The book time as an estimate would be around 1.5hrs or so, maybe a tad longer as you have to remove all the injectors (these will req new seals and bolts) and the fuel rail also. The gaskets don't generally fail on the Cr rocker covers but what you'll be experiencing is the actual oil filler neck leaking. The cover is made up of a few parts and the joint is what leaks. VAG released a billeting which involved cleaning, drying then siliconing in a small rubber block to combat the leak but this didn't always cure it. The new rocker covers however come ready modified to stop this in the future

Good luck bud