And the rest - it's over six years since I posted that! I see that the price has gone up a bit since then.
Over that time, we've seen a small but regular number of posts from folks who've had these fail. If there had been more failures, I'd have expected to see a market develop in reconditioned actuators, but that hasn't happened yet.
I'd agree. And it's one of the very few cars where I'd actually want to use Selenia oil, rather than a same specification equivalent. The value actuating logic uses a highly accurate temperature sensor to determine oil viscosity in real time, and if the temperature/viscosity profile of the oil doesn't match what it's expecting, it won't work properly. There's no guarantee that oils of the same specification will necessarily have the same profile - and we've had reports of rough running that have been sorted by an oil change to Selenia.
The recommended viscosity spec is different depending on the year of manufacture; what nobody has yet clarified is if there is a corresponding difference in the programming.
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