Quote Originally Posted by DoktorB
And to think the amount of poor souls that have been robbed into buying complete new or refurbished VANOS units when all they need was a set of seals.
its true :wink: other 2 most common problems on them are - rattle and very pure idling. vanos gears get worn and start make that rattling sound or second - very bad idling ,engine sounds like heavy modded Mustang engine,this is solenoid problem but even this is repairable or separate replaceable .