Poll, Condition of my IMS bearing

[pjv]

Who's doing the IMS work on your car Pominoz? I had the IMS Solution installed by Weltmeister Melbourne a year ago (04 986, single row bearing), and am happy that I did it.

[Pominoz]

Originally Posted by pjv

Who's doing the IMS work on your car Pominoz? I had the IMS Solution installed by Weltmeister Melbourne a year ago (04 986, single row bearing), and am happy that I did it.

Hi,

Weltmeister did my PPI actually, but I'm having the IMS retrofit done by Autoart in Preston. I had the major service done there are they seem very good, very friendly and helpful.
They should be using the new IMS pro dual row retrofit for single row bearings on my car, although they think there is a small chance my car may have the older dual row bearing in it. I'm not sure if that's likely given my car is 2002.

What condition was your old bearing in, and how may Kilometres had your car done?

[pjv]

My understanding is that a 2002 is likely to have the smaller single-row IMSB, but one can't be sure until things are dismantled. My car has done 77k kms. With the IMS solution it runs a bit quieter and I think smoother at idle, but I suppose that's subjective. The dual-row pro upgrade was not available when I had mine done, but I am not sorry I had the Solution kit installed. My old bearing looked OK, but had no grease in it at all, and did not spin as freely as I would have expected it to. If you search for my posts here you will see pictures of it that I posted at the time (a year ago). Good luck with it.