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I honestly believe that if the media picked up this story, Porsche would grudgingly offer a replacement or issue a recall, and at least admit to their engineering fault.
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60 Minutes knows about it.. Their cameraman owned a Boxster since new and the engine failed at 38K miles. The car ended up at my shop and he didn't want to fix it, so now one of my employees owns it. The cameraman told his boss about the issues and then my phone rang, but I was unwilling to say anything about the issue. If that story hit the news and we shared all of what we know you'd not be able to give a Boxster or 996 away and it wouldn't help any of the people who have had failures, or would have them in the future. There is one bit of info concerning the IMSB that we've never shared, and it alone would flip the whole story upside down.
Yesterday we documented M96 MOF#24, failure of the Intermediate Shaft Assembly.. Not the IMS Bearing. We always knew this failure was possible due to the design of the shaft; but until yesterday, we had not experienced it first hand. Here is a video that you'll find interesting from the Morgue @ Flat 6 Innovations. This MOF has no preventive possible.
M96 Mode Of Failure #24 by Flat 6 Innovations - YouTube
On another hand w just saved another engine from total loss due to IMSB Failure today... Crazy thing is it had zero IMSB Failure symptoms.
Here are some pics. Lots more of others like it elsewhere on the Flat 6 facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.546148478746285.139684.184464434914693&type=1
That said... The "IMS SOlution" is being included in all of our builds in 2013 and will be debuted soon in Panorama and Excellence. Its the first and only commercially available design change for the IMS Bearing. It is another bit of combined technology offered by Flat 6 Innovations and LN Engineering. It changes the whole game, but you won't find any mention of it on either of our websites. Not yet :-)