Karl Bloss has come through again and created a page with drop-downs and
all on his VW site for the head gasket survey.  All you will have to do
is point and click, and you're done. When I post the survey tomorrow,
the URL to Karl's survey page will be there...so you can either click it
and jump to Karl's survey page to complete the survey, or you can hit
the reply button and  type in numeric responses to the survery form
posted to the list.  Much thanks to Karl providing creating the page.

Thanks also for the patience of those who would prefer to hear no more
about the survey.  One reason for doing it is to try to get some answers
to questions that  appear and reappear on the list.  The data on coolant
type and water type, for example, will at least tell us whether these
variable matter...and hence will diminish the need for future debate on
the topic.  Even if we do not pin point  the cause of the problem or
precisely how to prevent it, we will at least have good info on when
failure is likely to occur, how long various repairs last and what is
the most cost-effective way to repair.  People can use the data to make
an informed decision based on the experience of hopefully hundreds of
others on how to deal with an EXPENSIVE and potentially devastating
problem that afflicts all wasserboxers....which is better than relying
on endless speculation based on the input of  4 or 5 people
participating in a thread on the list.

Steve

Backus, Brian G wrote:     ...

I will say that I don't hardly have enough time each day to sort through
all these posts and stats do bore the heck out of me and quite frankely
I don't see what they will tell us.
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