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I had large amounts of clean oil ending up on the ground very quickly. I was charged $750 by a dealership who felt I had 3 leaks: 2 valve cover leaks, oil filter adapter gasket housing and also claimed to find a leak in a trannie hose. Got the car home after paying the bill..discover still a huge puddle of oil under my car. Now they want an additional $12000 to fix a timing cover gasket leak, $2000 total!!!??? should'nt that have been the first thing to eliminate. My prior authorization of $750 was based on the fact I thought i was taking care of every leak on a vehicle with 105,000. Miles. Now I am in a delima and feel I just threw my money away on a job done by an very sloppy incompetant mechanic( who I may add decided to do a dye test and pressure clean of the engine the second time around). My additional question also is, Has anyone ever seen a valve cover leak drip on the ground so bad that a mechanic would actually believed it was a major leak issue. Or was this another tactic to rip me off!I always thought they just smelled a lot and oil drips there just burned up on the manifold. I thnk a lot of people just live with the nuisance of valve cover leaks anyway, however timing gaskets are a different story My leaky car is still there, and I wrote a nasty letter to the owner of the dealership to see his response