Ouch, IMS failure on Ebay

[JFP in PA]

Originally Posted by Kirk

That is a good question. I'm not really sure about the seller's legal rights. However, they are the ones who are suffering a loss here. The failed engine has decreased their sale price significantly. The buyer has no loss, they're getting the car pretty cheap. So I think it would stand to reason that the seller would be the one to benefit from any future settlement so as to set things right.

Kirk

Unfortunately, legally that is not going to happen as the seller sold the car with a “clear” title, not an encumbered one; any future settlement transferred to the buyer, so the seller is out in any future settlement. And, in any case, you would have to be nuts to buy a car with an encumbered title…………..

[mptoledo]

My favorite line of his ebay post was
"Individuals affiliated with Porsche in any way agree to pay double"

I guess I would be bitter if my ims crapped out after 2k miles.

[Perfectlap]

Is there any truth to this occuring more with the 03-04 cars because of the revised IMS design being more prone to failure than the earlier design?

This is the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title and sure enough it was an 03.

[timothy]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

Is there any truth to this occuring more with the 03-04 cars because of the revised IMS design being more prone to failure than the earlier design?

Not sure but my 03 has 92k miles and is going strong both on the street and track. That being said it will probably die tomorrow.

Sure wish I had seen this auction before it ended!

[blinkwatt]

The IMS was redesigned in 00'+ from the 97-99's,hence why it's an issue with newer M96 engines. 3.2L & 3.4L tend to have more of an issue with it. Just look how many 996 bad engine threads there are on Rennlist. If the IMS were redesigned again from 03'+ on I'm not sure.

[Jake Raby]

The IMS bearing revisions made the issues WORSE! The early cars have a double row bearing, mid year cars have a single row bearing with 1/2 as much bearing support!!

this was done to allow bearing removal and replacement so Porsche didn't owe you a new engine under warranty when it started to take a crap.

They all equally suck, I received a phone call yesterday from an IMS victim with a failure of a 00 bearing at 37K miles.. Today I have gotten TWO calls, one from an 02 Carrera owner and the other from an 04 Boxster S Owner.

Last week I had 7 IMS bearing failure calls, and two D chunk failure calls...

[Perfectlap]

^ What's the fix costing these days? (on the boxster not the 996)

Do you ever see this with the 996 TT's?