Hydraulic Tappets

The whole idea of hydraulic tappets is they're self adjusting.

Clearly you won't be doing it yourself because by very definition if it's "shims and buckets" then those are manually adjusted tappets not hydraulic ones. Not knowing that would seem to rule you out as being capable of the job.

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They still rattle when they're knackered, don't they?

Yes - they can. Although this is often due to poor maintence like overdue oil changes or inferior oil. Short journeys can make them noisy too. And it's possible there's extreme wear on the rest of the valve gear as well.

It doesn't sound to me as if they are knackered. They just need adjusting. They are not hydraulic but manual which need periodic adjustment. This is normally done at service time.

Ignoring any problem for so long (20,000 miles) is likely to have caused excessive wear/damage so it may be difficult to cure the problem fully.

From what you say you do not have much mechanical knowledge/training/experience so leave well alone.

It takes a minimum of 4 years to train a decent technician and even then they have a lot to learn.

Let someone who knows what they are doing do the job.

Fair nuff...

Correct i wasnt thinking of, just out of curiosity, oil/filter change odd bulb, for anything else i use a mechanic

I intend to, just one place said hydraulic tappets, and anther said shims and buckets

suspect like most other things on the car, it well mechanically looked after before i got it since ive had it its had oil changes every 8k or so..... Simply cos i have acess to the oil/disposal and ramp/lift.

If you give the model and year, I'd guess someone here will know which it has.

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1. im not expert mechanic but i have been known to have a bash, hydraulic tappits no thanks... i shall send it to the local friendly mechanic, but how much should i expect to pay? apparently its a "shims and buckets" which might mean somthing to someone on a corsa 1.7D corsa/combo 98 S-Plate.

Yes, usually either because something is worn outside the range they can compensate for, or because dirty oil has jammed them up.

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