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Originally Posted by mptoledo
Interesting,sad, but interesting that another low mileage with an ims problem. I really hope its something else and real cheap. I am still wondering why the majority of the cars are lower mileage? I am sure you will, but keep us posted. and So sorry to here 
Questions:
1.) Auto or stick?
2.) I think you said 3.2 am I correct that is was the "s" version?
3.) Any hints it was coming? IE. reving high, running hot, oil leaks on the floor.....? |
1) Stick
2) 3.2 "S"
3) No hints it was coming. No oil leaks, had the rear main done at under 10k miles under warranty. It's driven hard, but no track stuff, I have another car for that.
Based on all the "searching" on the forums I've done I can't seem to find any direct correlation among the failures. It's like you are either lucky or you aren't. I did find (2) other 2004 550 SE owners that had their IMS go out right at 20k miles though which is bizzare. There were only 900 of those cars that came to the US, figure what low % of owners are on these forums and 2 of these cars (possibly 3) had failures right at 20k miles........obviously not near a big enough sample to draw any conclusion, but odd none the less.
I too hope it's not the IMS, but that sound at idle "ain't good" at all. There's a local guy I trust that used to be the master tech at Porsche of Lexington before they shut down that just opened his own shop. I'll probably get him to pull the tranny to confirm it's the IMS while I wait for a slot with Jake Raby in June. However, if it is a comfirmed IMS it's probably best to let Raby do the work on it.