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The whole subject of IMS failure is quite interesting.

Over here in the UK, the upgrade is a lot less common / popular. I've been using UK based forums for the past two years and can only recall one report of a failure on a 986. I'm not sure how many users exactly there are on said forums, but it's got to total many hundreds.

It's very hard to really judge, and I'll probably learn the hard way, but I don't feel it's worth the expense on my 100k mile early 2.5 and its double-row bearing. Well, certainly not right now. If I'm feeling financially fit when the time comes for a new clutch, I might reconsider.

If I felt like these cars could be made rock solid with a new bearing, I'd probably be more keen, too. But I'm not convinced that's the case with all the other failure modes out there.