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Originally Posted by husker boxster
PerfectLap mentions the IMSB in an 06-08 Cayman will fail at some pt. He mentions it happening after 100K mi. If you make it to or past 100K mi, is it really a design flaw?
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If the engine would easily survive well past 100k if not for the bearing then I would call that a design flawe. And by survive I mean an engine that could be rebuilt without having to contend with the sort of carnage you often get with IMS failures. And using a sealed bearing where oil starvation could lead to this much destruction was inherently flawed engineering. Servicing a bearing by only one means, engine splitting, when already built cars don't need this added expense, is head-scratching engineering. To me it says they didn't really investigate the cause of failures but instead chose to concentrate on raising the level of tolerance before failure.
P.s.
I agree with you entirely on peak credit crisis cars holding value, so as long as interest rates remain low. But Bernanke seems to be telling us that the saying "all good things must come to an end" is about to come true. I would be selling real soon if i dont plan to keep a soon to be out of warranty car. Which means if I'm a buyer I'm waiting until next year or at least depositing the cash from a loan now to use later when loans get harder to get for the same rates and amounts.
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