For a long time, many over at the Cadillac forum I'm on used to use that "people only come here to complain" theory to excuse the alarmingly high number of headbolt failures on the Northstar cars. Round about the same time that a small cottage industry sprang up to support nothing other than N* engine rebuilds, the entire forum just began to quietly accept that it was just the nature of that engine and poor engineering that results in that problem. The forum was only a sounding board for what was already going on out in the rest of the civilized world. That wasn't even scientific, at the very least this info was very thoroughly thought out and put together.
While it is true that people DO have their first introduction to many car forums the first time they experience a problem, at some point a trend becomes a trend and you can't just excuse it away easily.
While it is true that people DO have their first introduction to many car forums the first time they experience a problem, at some point a trend becomes a trend and you can't just excuse it away easily.