[Jake Raby]

Don't start it back up until its looked at!!
A tremendous amount of our failure calls include the fact that the car was either pulling to a stop slowly or being parked when the IMS Failure occurred. Based on this I'd think worst case and hope for the best.

Do not even attempt to start it back up until the engine is looked at by a specialist that knows what the few symptoms of IMS Bearing Failure are. This one might be "saveable" at this stage if its not started back up to consume it's self.

There are a lot of other things that this could be as well, but I always default to worst case. Don't even allow the mechanic to start the car up to listen to the noise before the sump plate is pulled to look for debris.