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extanker · 10-13-2010, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by stab1991

Sorry to hear about your dilema, Hopoefully its not the IMS that failed. just curious, I have a base 2010 with the 2.9 Do I have an ims too?

09 up [gen2] dont have that old system......ours just smoke like hell on startups...well mine does

Jake Raby · 10-13-2010, 09:13 AM

Car is on the way now.. We'll make a posterchild out of this one, I'll share the pics, and mode of failure here on the forum.

stab1991 · 10-13-2010, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by extanker

09 up [gen2] dont have that old system......ours just smoke like hell on startups...well mine does

Thanks, and about the smoke on startup- we just dont look back. lol

Perfectlap · 10-13-2010, 09:23 AM

Jake Raby, are you free to ball park the number of IMS failures that have come to your shop and how long a time period that ecompasses?

extanker · 10-13-2010, 09:27 AM

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Originally Posted by stab1991

Thanks, and about the smoke on startup- we just dont look back. lol

sometimes i cant see back there or i get someone telling me that my car smoked real bad....dealer says its normal...i say....porsche,what was i thinking

stab1991 · 10-13-2010, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by extanker

sometimes i cant see back there or i get someone telling me that my car smoked real bad....dealer says its normal...i say....porsche,what was i thinking

Havent seen this on mine, yet....

But I only have 1050 miles on mine so far. No oil use so far, which is good on these cars apparently.