The engine on our PA28-161 needs to be zero-houred and the reconditioning cost quoted is around £9.5k.
The diagnostic work carried out by the current engineers, who we had just moved to, has revealed a number of alarming legacy issues seemingly missed/created by our previous maintenance company. Frankly, I'm shocked by what we've seen in an industry that, for the obvious safety reasons, I had expected/assumed would be top-notch.
I'm not interested in doing an Ulrika here
, but I am interested in an exchange of views of experiences with good/bad engineers and most important of all, how to tell one from the other!