Evening,
My car is currently at my Indy for some light top end work before my road trip next year. I'll cover it in my thread soon.
I was thinking about replacing the Variocam solenoids as preventative maintenance, even though they're functioning perfectly, as you can only access them from inside the cam carriers.
However, they used to cost £100 each. My Indy remembers being shocked when they went up to £170. Well guess what today's price is....
They look identical to the solenoid part of these VW ones but obviously I'm not going to start guessing with something so important.
So anyway I've done a bit of digging but not much info out there.
These will be fitted to other cars though so I just wondered if anyone has ever discovered what.
As it stands at the moment we are just going to go with my 65k mile ones as they're fine anyway. Preventative maintenance is good but I'm not spending the thick end of £1000 "just incase". Upto £200 or so then yeah, while we are in there.
We'll replace the seals with my other parts and that's all we can do.
Anyway any info welcomed. Not essential but I thought it worth asking. Thanks. :thumb:
PS. I have new seps/strainers for the sump too, just not in the pic.
My car is currently at my Indy for some light top end work before my road trip next year. I'll cover it in my thread soon.
I was thinking about replacing the Variocam solenoids as preventative maintenance, even though they're functioning perfectly, as you can only access them from inside the cam carriers.
However, they used to cost £100 each. My Indy remembers being shocked when they went up to £170. Well guess what today's price is....
They look identical to the solenoid part of these VW ones but obviously I'm not going to start guessing with something so important.
So anyway I've done a bit of digging but not much info out there.
These will be fitted to other cars though so I just wondered if anyone has ever discovered what.
As it stands at the moment we are just going to go with my 65k mile ones as they're fine anyway. Preventative maintenance is good but I'm not spending the thick end of £1000 "just incase". Upto £200 or so then yeah, while we are in there.
We'll replace the seals with my other parts and that's all we can do.
Anyway any info welcomed. Not essential but I thought it worth asking. Thanks. :thumb:
PS. I have new seps/strainers for the sump too, just not in the pic.