[Beedub]

thanks for the info and sadly stick even the MOST trusted of shops need to be kept on their toes, if they or any shop senses a lack of knowledge or care on your part they will take the piss, redish motorsport a very respected shop over here uk side recently got a rough end of dealing with me when i called them out on certain practices, they dealt with it in a professional manner but i could tell id realy hurt our future working relationship.... In their case a valve inspection without changing the gaskets left me pissed, i won't even go into the tight valve shim that in the end i had to dig in and replace myself as they wanted to remove the cams and vanos to remove it ( i did it within 2 mins slightly depressing the valve with a plastic trim tool, measured and re-shimmed that valve having never seen the inside of an s54 before)!!

On further probing they are very happy to say they NEVER change VGC on the s54 unless they leak, to me thats MADNESS...

so in answer to your question i go in educated NO matter the shops Rep, check work over thoroughly but they are all the same with varying degree's of piss take, its just a cheque for these people at the end of the day.

With what you've said re the Tq on those nuts of the VT bolts, that hasn't helped their life and more to the point, i wouldnt want them building me an engine, like it or not little knocks in this world sink ships and loose trust very easily for the real car enthusiast.