I get the impression that these engines wear out quickly

[Franco]

Hi, Now I'm confused,

When a leaking RMS isn't fixed it could lead to an IMS failure right!!! and the culprit would be the RMS bearing gone bad and causing the IMS ( SHAFT) to spin off center causing the total engine meltdown or maybe the RMS oil leak was only from the 3 bolts holding the bearing housing in place and not cause any IMS failure at all.
Did i get this right or does the RMS seal and bearing have nothing to do with the IMS shaft failure, meaning that it fails on its own due to a bad design, what I'm trying to say is the IMS, the shaft being spun in place by the RMS bearing or are they not related at all and in different places in the engine.

I need another coffee

[Brucelee]

Originally Posted by Franco

Hi, Now I'm confused,

When a leaking RMS isn't fixed it could lead to an IMS failure right!!! and the culprit would be the RMS bearing gone bad and causing the IMS ( SHAFT) to spin off center causing the total engine meltdown or maybe the RMS oil leak was only from the 3 bolts holding the bearing housing in place and not cause any IMS failure at all.
Did i get this right or does the RMS seal and bearing have nothing to do with the IMS shaft failure, meaning that it fails on its own due to a bad design, what I'm trying to say is the IMS, the shaft being spun in place by the RMS bearing or are they not related at all and in different places in the engine.

I need another coffee

To my knowledge, there is not relationship between the two, except that both are design flaws that have not been fixed by porsche.

[Franco]

Hi, Thanks Bruce

Let's pray to all the Gods :ah:

[2000SoCalBoxsterS]

Originally Posted by LuisR

2000SoCalBoxsterS,
I noticed that your car description indicated your Boxster has Limited Slip Differential. Did you install an aftermarket differential on your car?? As far as I know all Porsches, except the 997 GT3, do not come with Limited Slip differentials.
LR

LR, sorry for the very delayed response to your question. I only noticed it now.

I looked up the option codes listed on the sticker under my hood. They included option code 224 which I looked up and found it to be "Limited Slip Diff". Could be an error in the decoder I used but I also have the 222 code which is Traction control so maybe they work hand-in-hand. I forgot which decoder I used. 224 was not in my Bentley manual, but I also use the PCA Q&A club function and an online decoder.

[Jeph]

Originally Posted by humara

wouldn't that be IS instead of IMS? or is inter mediate 2 words now?
i guess that's worse than IBS?

Yeah, and if we're getting into semantics, isn't "100M miles" actually 100,000,000 miles?
I'd say that's an "old" engine. (I'd also say it's reliable.)

[Paul]

In accounting terms m = 1000, mm = 1,000,000

[Jeph]

Originally Posted by Paul

In accounting terms m = 1000, mm = 1,000,000

And in Roman Numerals, M = 1000, MM = 2000

However, accounting terms are generally associated with currency. Furthermore, "m" could also be "meters" or "miles." All in all, an ambivalent abbreviation.

I like the commonly used "100k" which hopefully won't get confused with 100 kilometers. And watch out for "100K" which would be 100 degrees Kelvin <- And that would be a COLD engine, not an OLD one.

What a tricky world of grammar we live in!
-I mean, "What a tricky world of grammar in which we live!"