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About TRQ:
TRQ is a trusted brand dedicated to making every repair a success story by combining premium parts with easy installation. Each TRQ part is engineered by a team of automotive experts to meet or exceed OEM standards, delivering enhanced performance and maximum longevity. With rigorous in-house testing, the brand ensures superior fit and function across every product line. TRQ also provides customers with best-in-class, step-by-step installation videos—so you can complete repairs with confidence, whether you're a first-time DIYer or an industry professional.
Product Features
TRQ variable valve timing (VVT) solenoids are manufactured to precise specification using premium raw materials with anodized housings for maximum service life. To ensure peak performance, TRQ recommends replacing the variable valve timing solenoids in pairs (where applicable) to ensure a consistent oil flow rate and prevent premature wear of timing components. All products are fit and road-tested in our Massachusetts R&D facility to ensure we deliver on our promise of Trusted Reliable Quality.
Returns: Parts with electrical components cannot be returned once installed.
Attention California Customers:
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Chromium (Hexavalent Compounds), which is known to the State of California to cause cancer, and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information, go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov
Lifetime Warranty
This item is backed by our limited lifetime warranty. In the event that this item should fail due to manufacturing defects during intended use, we will replace the part free of charge. This warranty covers the cost of the part only.
Returns: Parts with electrical components cannot be returned once installed.
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Perfect fit and took care of the problems. The video made it easy for me to install and I'm not the mechanic type. Engine light is cleared and my Mini is driving like a champ again!
Didn't lower the valve rattle noise that I was hoping for. Also my engine only needed one valve and I ordered two. Waist of time and money.
Excellent
I purchased two TRQ-branded VVT solenoids for my 2012 Mini Cooper S after experiencing rough idling during cold starts. The original OEM Pierburg VVT solenoids had 150,000 miles on them. After replacing them with the TRQ units, the cold idle issue disappeared, and my fuel economy increased from 23 to 28 mpg. I am thrilled with this purchase and recommend it if it is compatible with your vehicle. Hopefully, these will last.
I really appreciate you guys with all the help I'm not a mechanic but I do have some tools. Really easy to install really help your you tube videos. Thanks a million ??
It worked. I replaced the part. That was took care of my problem. Thank you!
After replacing this variable cam timing solenoid, it got my wife's 2011 mini cooper (R55) to pass emissions.
The solenoid was an exact fit and solved our exhaust timing issue. The part was exactly as described and arrived as promised.
all good quality easy to install. video really helps
Affordable replacement VANOS solenoid - gets the job done without the added expense for an OE part that has a relatively short service life anyway. Replacement solenoid installed quickly and easily in only 10 minutes (2012 Countryman S exhaust solenoid). Connector fit perfectly and issue was solved. Car ran great again and is still doing so a few weeks later. Recommended.
Its a 2 pin connector, part number "12527542EightFourNine". FCPEURO has it for less than 8 dollars.
Yes, this part will fit your vehicle as long as you have a L4 1.6L engine.
Yes, this part will fit your vehicle as long as you have L4 1.6L.
Are you sure it's the vanos? If it's plugged up, it would cause issue. If it's clean you may have a timing issue. If the chain is too tight or too loose it affects how far the cam moves.
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This solenoid is listed to fit 2014 Mini Cooper models with an L4 1.6L engine.
Yes it fit because I buy one still working good
I purchased this item and so I'm now able to post the answer to my own question: China. That said, the part appears to be of high quality, arrived in a vacuum-sealed plastic pouch inside a cardboard box with the TRQ branding. Appears machined out of billet metal (stainless steel? aluminum?) with microscreens on three of the tiers versus just a single one on the original part (original part was marked "Delphi.") Overall form factor does seem identical, as does the weight. Could perhaps believe this was made in the same factory as OE. Have driven the car just a few miles since install, but engine seems to idle more smoothly and be easier to start out in gear (standard transmission) with perhaps better low-RPM power. Had been getting occasional limp mode with pending P0015 codes, and so far, none yet.
Yes, these are the same for either side.
Yes this will fit a 2011 Mini Cooper S with the 1.6L engine.
