New-to-me 2004S in Atlanta

[Jake Raby]

Originally Posted by Radua

Hoping someone can answer this question: Just purchased a 2004 Boxster S Anniversary Edition that had a catastrophic IMS engine failure in 2009. Porsche good willed a new engine on 4/2009. New engine only has 26k on it. Is this new engine suspect for an IMS failure? Or would that have been corrected with engine. Thanks.

In this case the engine sill be fitted with an M97 IMSB. It has the same chance of living as all the 2006-2008 cars, which is very good as long as it is is not tracked. Change the oil 4X more frequently than the factory says, and just drive.