IMS Failure - Need Advice

[Jaxonalden]

Mark, your car is still worth some pretty good money since it's a 550. If it wasn't a 550 I was going to suggest you tow it to Porsche Cars North America Headquarters in Atlanta, light it on fire and sling shot it from behind your truck right through the front doors.

I love my car, but the way Porsche has handled this KNOWN situation with a latent defect in their IMS bearing is preposterous. :troll: I don't understand why there hasn't been a case action lawsuit because of this.

[Jake Raby]

I am contacted on at least a monthly basis by those attempting a class action and they are looking for info or an expert witness. It's usually an attorney who had an engine scatter himself. I won't even consider talking about anything to do with a court room.. No amount of money could convince me otherwise.

I have also had 60 minutes talk to me about exposing these failures after their camer man's Boxster engine failed and found its way to my facility. Nope- no part of it.

As for the original poster's failure- people forget that we repair engines post IMSB failure all the time without a full reconstruction. The work carries no warranty but we can repair engines that are considered junk by others and have never had a single one return for a round #2.

[Jaxonalden]

Originally Posted by Jake Raby

I am contacted on at least a monthly basis by those attempting a class action and they are looking for info or an expert witness. It's usually an attorney who had an engine scatter himself. I won't even consider talking about anything to do with a court room.. No amount of money could convince me otherwise.

I have also had 60 minutes talk to me about exposing these failures after their camer man's Boxster engine failed and found its way to my facility. Nope- no part of it.

As for the original poster's failure- people forget that we repair engines post IMSB failure all the time without a full reconstruction. The work carries no warranty but we can repair engines that are considered junk by others and have never had a single one return for a round #2.

Sounds like a "Why bite the hand that feeds you" answer Jake. People with failures are stuck with huge costs and you DON'T want to help them right a wrong? For those with failures I'm sure they will all say, Thanks Jake!

Eric, I don't call that "..going down the road so many people ask you to go", I call that protecting his investment.

[Jake Raby]

You don't get it...

Have any idea what would happen to the value of your car and everyone else's if the story hit 60 minutes? They'd blow it up like the Volvo story, the Jeep CJ5 story and all the others and the prices of the cars would all plummet to the point where you couldn't give them away.. They are the media and they will do anything to create the drama that excites their ratings- they don't give a single damn about you, me, Porsche or anything else.

The same goes with a class action, but its worse because the only person that is going to benefit from the win would be the slimy lawyer who arranged it. The owners of the cars won't get more than 20 bucks in the mail for owning one of the cars and prices will plummet. The Boxster would go down as "The Porsche that had the class action suit for engines blowing up". Nothing good would come from it and now the cars are all old enough that the newest IMS equipped car is well out of warranty.

I believe that mechanical issues are solved in the shop, in the lab and on the track- not in some freaking court room filled with slime balls wearing polyester suits. I put my energy into solving the issues, because you can't fix the past but you can develop fixes for the future.

The other reason I never talk to any of these people about court cases or to 60 minutes is because simply telling the truth about these engines has already labeled me as a fear monger and it gets really old really quick. I have thousands of pictures that I could post, but all they do is devalue the cars more and make people thing that we are making this into something bigger than it is to stimulate our wallets. Today we have to shut up, not share pics and just take it all in and save it for later because it has been apparent for years that the following can't handle the truth.

In short, wrenches fix engine problems, not a gavel~