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11,000 pictures of failed IMS bearings. Wow. That is the first concrete statement I have read on any discussion forum about the number of documented failures. Assuming there were 200,000 engines built with the IMS bearing, that would mean that Jake has documentation of around a 5% failure rate and that doesn't even take into consideration the additional failures he doesn't have photos of. If a published engine failure rate of 5% doesn't obliterate the value of our cars, it is hard to imagine what would. I can't believe that with this rate of total engine failure, costing approximately $100,000,000 in damages (at a cost of approximately $10,000 per failure) that there has not been some slime bag lawyer willing to put up a couple hundred thousand dollars of his own money in expert witness fees and litigation costs to get to the bottom of this (and get really really rich). While Jake may be "the" expert on IMS failure, I am sure there are plenty of other engineers out there willing to give their opinions about the cause of IMS failure and the fact that the IMS bearing is a defective design. And when the fleabag lawyer can't/doesn't win the class action suit because the facts don't support a defective design, the engineer expert witness doesn't give his fee back. If filing and winning such a class action suit were so easy, it would have been done already and we all would have received a $20 gift certificate for a Porsche ball cap and the lawyers would have collected their millions in fees. Until then, let's continue to use derogatory terms to describe greedy attorneys and continue to praise those brave, patriotic, pioneering engineers who saw a market and chose to take advantage of it.
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