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Originally Posted by linklaw
BYprodriver, I was not being critical of Jake, or anyone else, with my posts. What false statement are you talking about? Here is the quote from Jake that prompted my original (sarcastic) post:
"That said the pictures of failed components on my site is less than 20, the total of my database of component pics is over 11,000.
If I wanted to obliterate these vehicles and engines I'd post every single one of them.
Want a sample? Here ya go."
There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of reading comprehension involved with interpreting that statement. I assumed he was referring to failed IMS bearing photos as that is the subject of this thread. Why would photos of other failed components have any relevance? Is there a photo of a failed seat belt retractor or center console lid that will tank the value of our cars? I see now that he is referring to other component failures that have caused engines to self destruct, in addition to the IMS bearing.
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You're correct in there not being a whole lot of reading comprehension required, but you also pointed out in your next statement that you
assumed he was referring to just IMS bearings. He said the total of photos in his database of failed components is at 11,000...meaning 11,000 photos, and meaning only 11,000 photos of failed components, not specifically of failed IMS bearings, and of course certainly not meaning each is a single picture of a failure instance.
All I'm saying here is that I did not read and comprehend that statement in the same way you did to mean 11,000 pictures of just failed bearings...I'm not trying to box with you.
Maybe there aren't seat belt retractor failure pics and such, but I imagine he'd have pics of failed chain tensioners and their aftermath, and maybe something as obscure and unheard of (but not impossible) as the crappy plastic cover for the oil filter having been destroyed by some sort of road debris, causing the engine to pretty much bleed out to failure.
You're right in that the 11,000 pictures do not have as much relevance to this thread because it was a general statement about component failures in this car, I'm not debating that notion. It simply accomplishes an effect for those who will skim the writeup, see "11,000" and go
Unfortunately nothing can be done to stop that.
I think by the time anybody really figured out what the heck was happening with these cars it was too little too late to bring anything against Porsche. The way I see it, if it caused the car values to tank, fine, then many more people would scoop them up, make the necessary repairs, and in the end spend the same money they would now just to buy the car, but have a bulletproofed engine...works for me.
