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Old 09-28-2012, 11:03 PM   #904
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FYI, this list was started exactly five weeks ago and since that time, we have 115 owners noting specific CEL/idle issues. I have been seeing an average addition of about 2 owners per day with no sign of slowing (Should this latest ECU update not solve the problem, the rate of occurrence could greatly increase).

Statistically speaking, it is not possible at this time to accurately determine the percentage of affected owners.

However, for entertainment purposes I'll try to approximate based on a couple of assumptions:

Roughly 8000 vehicles have been sold - not all have made it into consumers hands, but we'll round up anyway (some were used in marketing, car mags, safety orgs, other testing, etc.).

Let's say 50% of the owners (4000) take time to read internet forums.
Of those 50%, only about half (2000) will post anything to the ft86club forum.

Therefore, one can't simply take 115 (ft86club owners) and divide it by 8000 for a percentage of 1.4%. That would assume every owner would read internet forums, would find the ft86club forum, and would be willing to post to it. Using a more realistic (IMO) sampling of 2000 owners, we would get a value of 5.7%.

That said, @Art_Mighty's approximation of 5% to 7% affected may not be very far off...

Last edited by eurospeed; 09-28-2012 at 11:21 PM.
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