Owner reviews for valve cover gasket

This looks fine but I would recommend oem valve cover gasket, everytime I use anything else they go leaking. If none of that work has been done before I highly recommend getting them done. If you skip on plugs and valve adjustment you could potentially wear out the cam or burn the valves and it’ll be way more expensive to deal with later, and the plugs don’t like to live in there much beyond the 90k service life, usually cooked before that too. If they sit too long the zinc coating will fail and you’ll have galvanic corrosion in the threads and seize the plugs in. Then you’ll have to repair the head, which gets expensive. The coolant probably should have been replaced at 70k, not as dire but you guys are almost double that now. Coolant lubes the pump, if it gets too old you get more wear on that and it starts to leak prematurely. Those aren’t too big of a deal to replace, but more cost earlier than needed if it goes bad. Also corrosion protection breaks down in old fluid. If you skip those now, try to do it soon. Those are the only real big services you have to worry about every 100k miles, the rest is easy. Trans fluid should be drain and fills every 30k miles, idc what Honda or anyone recommends

my 2017 Kia rio has 155,000km. It\u2019s going strong. I\u2019ve only had to replace the valve cover gasket.

Labor cost for that is sounding correct. Im a mechanic and own a 00 avalon. Ive been putting off doing valve cover gaskets for a while because its gonna be so tedious.

Well at 112k km my N20 already changed the VCG twice. Once under warranty at 60k-ish km and one at 100k-ish km. The latter I was using Elring instead of Genuine BMW.

I miss our XC90 V8 (that needed new valve cover gaskets) every day.

Having had one for a little over a decade now, my experience has been that the engine itself is generally quite reliable. As someone else said, valve cover gaskets can and do leak and when they do, they are likely to take out the alternator which is a massive pain to replace as it is sandwiched between the block and the fire wall.

2016 535i with 176 000 miles. The water pump has been replace as well as the valve cover gaskets.

-Valve cover gasket leaks - difficult access to rear bolts

-Wiper motor shorting out due to water damage to internal electronics (replace motor, and seal wiper cowl with silicone)

-Cabin air blows out of random vents, all vents, or only one vent (bad O-rings on internal solenoids in EATC unit)

-Cracked coolant crossover on intake manifold (pre-2003 vehicles)

-peeling clear/paint on 90’s - 00’s models

-leaking oil filter adapter gasket

I replaced it with a Mahle VS50515, put a very thin layer of oil on it so it doesn't bind, cleaned all the bolts, and torqued them down to 10Nm using the bolt pattern in the earlier post. 2 weeks later, it's starting to seep all around. The gasket doesn't look like it's seated properly, with some places clearly not straight

it has cracked headers causing a mild exhaust leak, leaking valvecover gaskets which make a mess of the engine bay. I just ignore both of those.