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Originally Posted by spongebob
Found some interesting statistics in an annual report from one of the bigger Swedish insurance companies. It was not a pleasant reading to look through it.
Insurance covers engine failures up to 8 years and 10.000km, after that you are on your own.So it is fairly new cars in the figures.
Porsche ended up at place 5 from botton when it came to amount of engine failures cars with 1,5 breakdown/100 cars ( front motor cars included!) So if the more reliable frontmotor cars could be separated figures would probably be higher.
Also remember that most Porsches in Sweden hibernates from October to April which should also double the figures compared to all other cars in the report.
This means that 6 years of ownership gives you approx a 10% chance of a major failure or up to 20% if used for 12 months per year
When it came to repair cost Porsche was without doubt in top ( or bottom depending on how you see it) with an average figure of $9000
Should have been really interesting to see the failure rate per km instead which I guess could scare us even more.
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Do you have a link to the data?
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