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Since we seem to be doing closing statements I will make mine.

Bypro was not the point of the rant but he took it that way and got his nose bent out of shape, So whatever, my reading comprehension tested in the top percentile for 2nd graders and that is good enough for me.

Jake is one person who I place partial responsibility for the current hysteria on and I have told him so on this forum and would gladly tell him in person. His "Tick Tick Boom" ads were over the top, that combined with the candor of his threads like "just saved another one mere seconds from disaster" and "IMS's are failing all around me" (I am paraphrasing) posts have not helped. He has done some good work and is now profiting from it handsomely, which is fine with me, but dont tell me it is purely altruism because it is not. Yelling fire in a theater is my real beef with Raby.

and then there are the folks like you and me that are typical anal retentive porsche owners that allow ourselves to become obsessed with technical imperfections in our otherwise nearly perfect cars. Like a small flake of paint we insist on picking at it with our fingernail until the small blemish becomes far worse. We are allowing ourselves to be manipulated and paying big time bucks for the pleasure.

There does seem to be more reality checking going on with the issue and Pelican is offering a low cost option which is welcomed. With the LN bearing, the Guardian, the Pelican bearing and articles in every Porsche magazine in the world I would contend that it is time for us as a group to move past the IMS hysteria, move on to greener technical pastures and enjoy our cars.