Thanks All,

I just called the shop, said 'go for it' and the owner said 'ok, first thing we do is double check the previous diagnostic and check out the rest of the engine.' When I drop the car off on monday, I'll make sure he will do wet leakdown (this shop is quite good, nothing but MBs and very busy). Hopefully things will be over in two weeks. Till then, I'm biking to work =). It will be interesting to see the outcome-I urge everybody to enjoy the voyerism of somebody else having a valve job done on a 16v-second documented case on this board i think.

cheers,
dan r.