Alfa Romeo 147 Selespeed - Variator - ludemon

I will shortly be renewing all belts, idlers and tensioners etc on the engine and understand that it is also advisible to replace the Variator at the same time.

Does anyone know what actually wears out on the Variator and is it possible to refurbish with component parts as it is rather a large chunk of machined metal to throw away?

Alfa Romeo 147 Selespeed - Variator - injection doc

The variator normally gets quite noisey at idle when worn, makes it sound like a diesel.

I am not aware of any recon units available