IMS Failure - Need Advice

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Jake

I don't think anybody sane dismisses the notion that these engines have major engineering problems that lead to premature failure or that your outfit has carved out a significant niche and developed extensive expertise in repairing them (though I would think there's at least one outfit and probably two or three in the UK that would take issue with your characterisation of having a unique status as such).


However, I would suggest there's more to this than people getting upset with you for criticising the engineering of their pride and joy and wanting to stick their heads in the sand / fingers in ears.

There's also a certain level of bombasticness to your posts, extensive blowing of own trumpet and also an impression of being less than forthcoming on occasion. These are just impressions, I make no claim as to the facts.

As it happens, I also disagree that being more forthcoming about the failures would obliterate values or new sales. I doubt it would have much impact at all, personally, and I think you're teetering on the edge of delusions of grandeur, imagining that you hold Porsche second hand values or new sales in the palm of your hand.

Moreover, in my day job, I happen to have interviewed several world leading engineers (not in the automotive industry, by the by), some of whom are borderline household names thanks to their innovative work. What they all shared was a disarming modesty. They had nothing to prove. They were also very willing to entertain contrary views to their own from non experts, even on subjects on which they were probably the world's leading authority, and did so in good spirits no matter how dumb the questions put them (not doubt including my own).

I've read lots of your posts over the last couple of years of owning an M96 car and have to say some of them definitely make me uneasy.