I can tell you with certainty that most transmissions that I have seen which were previously redone by other NON VW Specialists, had several things wrong with them. Most were minor..but all were redone again in too short a time. Though I will never know how many were done by them and are still ok, cause they still work....Most of the really bad ones were quite obviously done cheaply just so the van could be sold with the least expense possible. True hatchet jobs... Hence, I believe the same is true with Wasserboxer engines..someone like Boston Engines would be far superior to even a good local shop that seldom does one, due to familirarity with the beast... .02$ Daryl of AA Transaxle, Duvall, Wa. (425) 788-4070 1-877-377-0773 (toll free) aatransaxle.com (web site) >>The investigators compared hospitals which do a comparatively large volume of procedures such as heart bypasses, etc.... and hospitals which did relatively few of those same operations. The results for the high-volume hospitals were significantly better. According to the report, some patients choose smaller hospitals for convenience, or because their physician has a connection there; but in California in one year, 602 patients -- who did not survive a given procedure in a smaller hospital -- would very probably have survived in a hospital that handled a large volume of that procedure. Obviously, these are statistical projections, but carefully arrived at..... surely of great concern to the 602 California families involved. Is there a parallel concerning the rebuilding of waterboxer engines? What is the success rate for a large sample of shops doing only one or two rebuilds per year? Just wondering.....??<< |
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