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Originally Posted by rondocap
Jake and others:
It's fantastic to have such support for the engine on these cars.
But it does lead me, as being new to Porsche, to be fairly disappointed that such a large issue exists. All cars have wear and tear, but for a car to eat its own engine (and often at low mileage) is extremely unacceptable.
From my understanding, cost cutting at Porsche during rougher years is what lead to this unreliable fact.
By the way, I have a BMW and am active in that community and love cars; and I had never heard of this Porsche IMS issue until I started to more deeply research it. It's everywhere to be read, but for non-Porsche owners, you'd never know it. Disappointing.
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Porsche has made mistakes with just about every major change in their development process. I think the jump to M96 is worse than most, but a top end rebuild for a 993, to turn out the check engine light to buy your tags can run you 12 to 14k.
BMW has had their share of engineering problems as well. The first E46 M3 engines were replaced by the boatload, but almost all of them tanked while under warranty. The "automatic" transmissions in those same M3s continue to fail at a high rate, and a dead battery can cost you several hundred dollars, a tow, and a software upload from the factory for every major system.
I only bring that up to highlight that all manufacturers have their issues. The real difference here as I see it is that Porsche refused to do anything about it but do an engine swap, and refused to provide any internal engine parts, tools, or even rudimentary failure rate data. Porsches' actions and non actions resulted in depreciation that has made the cost of entry into the used Porsche market to be possible to anyone. Jake and Charles have made it possible to be able to maintain those "inexpensive Porsches" if there is such a thing, to a high standard. We owe them more gratitude than I can describe and I hope Jake and Charles make more money than they can ever spend on these projects. Who knows what they'll come up with next?