You'all scare me...................

[clickman]

Originally Posted by Highlow

if a 1k repair is going to break the bank, you really shouldn't have one of these anyway.

I don't think most are concerned with the 1k bills, it's the multi-k bills resulting from a blown engine.

[Steve Tinker]

pothole,
I think what Jake Raby is trying to get over is that all of the broken engines he has seen this year have been comparativly low mileage (under 100,000 miles) catastrophic failures as apposed to "worn out" by high mileage.
Probably if he was in the servicing game instead of the "Help, my egine's just died, what can I do" game, he would see a lot more high mileage M96 engined cars in his shop.