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We study the classical flat full causal bulk viscous Friedmann–Robertson–Walker cosmological model with variable gravitational and cosmological constants through the factorization method. The method allows us to find some new exact parametric solutions. The assumptions made lead us to study two approaches. We find, in the studied cases, that the Universe ends in an accelerating era except in the case of a particular solution where the Universe could be noninflationary for all times. In both approaches the cosmological constant is a decreasing function of time, while the gravitational constant behaves as a growing or decreasing time function depending on the sign of Λ. By taking into account recent observations that indicate that Λ must be positive, we conclude that G increases with time except in the first solution where both “constants” tend asymptotically in the large time limit to a constant value. We also present a new factorization scheme that allows us to generate new solutions to a kind of variable...