How many miles does a Range Rover engine go, before a valve job is necessary?
It’s extremely unlikely that your engine needs a valve job. Old, carburetor-fed engines would need them after a while because of poor fuel and spark management. Engines built in the last 10-15 years or so have electronic fuel injection that prevents the problems that once were seen with burned valves, or valves that developed carbon deposits because of incomplete combustion. If your car was built after 1996, you should be able to get its trouble codes read at any repair shop. If you have a lot of misfires, that would show up in the engine’s computer, and you would also have a MIL – the idiot light that tells you to check the engine. If the codes are clear, you have no combustion problems. From here, we’re headed into uncertain territory. The usual culprit for a ticking noise is an engine that needs adjustment for tappet clearance. This is more common on pushrod engines than on overhead cam engines, but they all need it sooner or later. The good news is that it’s nowhere near as expensi
