1.8 Turbo Owners

[Finchy172]

I am conducting a Market Research questionaire for part of a University Project based upon the design of a car part.
For this we are looking into the VAG 1.8 Turbo engine and in particular the recirculating (dump) valve. Which costs £60 + VAT and Fitting.

I would appreciate if you could spare me 3 minutes of your time to copy and paste this questionaire and answer the questions as honest as possible.

Regards
Brad Fincham
Bsc Motorsport Engineering

1 - What car do you Drive?

2 - Do you currently have the OEM recirculating valve fitted?

3 - Would you benefit from this product being serviceable?

4 - Would you agree to have this product serviced at the regular intervals?

5 - What would you expect the product life to be in Years or Mileage?

6 - Please put this in order of importance
A - Cost
B - Styling / Aesthetics
C - Performance
D - Serviceability / Maintenance
E - Reliability

7 - Do you Have and Aftermarket Valve fitted?

8 - Why did you purchase this?

9 - Which Manufacturer / Model did you purchase?

10 - How do you rate this product overall on a 1-10 scale. (10 being the best)

11 - What do you see as the benefits of an aftermarket valve?

12 - Would you change back to OEM valve if it was serviceable and didnt void your warranty?

13 - What price would you expect to pay for a OEM serviceable valve?

14 - Any other Comments?


I wish to thank you for your time and if anybody would like to see the results from this survey then please email me at [e-mail]. Or if anybody has any questions, comments they wouldnt like to post on here then feel free to email me.

[IAM_Cupra]

1 - What car do you Drive? Seat Ibiza Cupra Mk3

2 - Do you currently have the OEM recirculating valve fitted? No

3 - Would you benefit from this product being serviceable? No

4 - Would you agree to have this product serviced at the regular intervals? Yes, if it was included with an overall service

5 - What would you expect the product life to be in Years or Mileage? Mileage

6 - Please put this in order of importance
A - Cost
B - Styling / Aesthetics
C - Performance
D - Serviceability / Maintenance
E - Reliability

Reliability, Performance, Serviceability, Styling, Cost

7 - Do you Have and Aftermarket Valve fitted? Yes

8 - Why did you purchase this? I wanted better reliability

9 - Which Manufacturer / Model did you purchase? Forge 006

10 - How do you rate this product overall on a 1-10 scale. (10 being the best)8

11 - What do you see as the benefits of an aftermarket valve? Reliability/Style

12 - Would you change back to OEM valve if it was serviceable and didnt void your warranty? No

13 - What price would you expect to pay for a OEM serviceable valve? unknown - it's Seat: depends what day of the week you ask for a quote.

14 - Any other Comments? Forge 006: very good product. Would recommend to anyone