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Old 02-17-2012, 05:20 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by jcb986 View Post
Well, I am going to add my to 2 cents worth here. I believe most failures come from Porsches with standard transmission. Why the failure, the Tip's produce less stress on the back of the engine as where as on a standard you would have more stress from everyday driving.
While there may be some element of truth in this, there is a more basic reason; the total number of Tiptronic cars is a very small fraction of the total number of the Boxster fleet. As the result, few Tips fail simply because there are fewer of them to begin with. But they do fail.

Interestingly, there are more than just one or two single owner, multiple IMS failure reports; so driving style may play into what factors lead to the problem; but again, only one source has most if not all of the data, and they ain't talking.....
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