New to the Boxster Family

[blue2000s]

Unfortunately, for IMS, there's no data that suggests driving the car all year around is any less likely to have the failure occur. There's also absolutely no data that suggests a mileage correlation to IMS failure. I've seen new, 20k and 80k engines with IMS failures. There's also no correlation between maintenance and IMS failure.

The only thing that seems to be common is that the cars were being driven sedately, usually in traffic, when things start to get noisy and the car begins to run very poorly.

So again, unfortunately, there are no known preventative measures that can be taken to avoid IMS failure. So you can live in fear, or enjoy your car and get on with life.

[PSL-Boxster]

welcome to the family =]

[rick3000]

IMS failure doesn't affect pre-'01 Boxsters. Only Boxster made after 2001 with the redesigned (aka. - quieter but faulty) shaft have IMS failures. That isn't to say IMS can't happen on a pre-'01 but it is extremely rare.

[70Sixter]

Read the late Jim Pasha's article in Dec Excellence. With input from Jake Raby and others it cover the M96 problems very well.

Somebody posted a link to it. Search Pasha and Raby and RMS.