Poll: RMS and Engine problem questionaire

Nightmare week,

i like to repeat myself sorry, wrote a simillar post last week, sorry to those that have to read it again......so in october 2005 had the RMS replaced with a so called
"updated seal". the warranty was up in november 2005. this past sunday i took the car out of the garage ( car is in storage, dam snow). i found a little oil leak, i fliped, wrote a letter to porsche germany / porsche canada / porsche america / whoever's email addresses that i could find really. really didnt want to take any chances, with someone telling me that i owe $900.00 for an RMS leak, right after having it replaced. so tammy in atlanta called me from porsche the other day and told me that a warranty exists that covers the new updated seal that they put in the car in october of 2005 thank god.

sooo i took the car in today to get it checked, and they tell me that the leak is "residue". so i have a nice inch by an inch oil spot on my garage floor, a piece of newspaper that i placed yesterday on the floor, with a a nice little oil spot. when they lifted the car on a hoist, they said that it was "residue" . that much residue, what the bloody hell....

2002 porsche boxster, no replaced engine, 1 rms leak, on going residue leak, 19646 miles / 300000 km. no mods to engine. lowered but that shouldnt make a difference. drive hard oh yeah. no tracking the car. what else............

shoot me

[xclusivecar]

Let's not re-invent the wheel here. I'll post to the PPBB board and see if Loren has finished the survey from last year. From what he had stated he's a stats guy. Works with numbers, stats, surveys, etc., for a living. Maybe we can ADD to his ongoing survey????

[MNBoxster]

Hi,

Granted, we're not currently at a Sample Size which is meaningful, but as I have previously mentioned, about 2 weeks ago, informal surveys, done at various Forums, including PistonHeads in the UK seemed to indicate a 20%-30% Failure rate of RMS, not qualified for Design defficiency or Owner Caused. It's been interesting that so far, we're hovering in that range, although it seems a little higher thanthat figure so far, but more respondants might lower the Stat...

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

Hi, I voted "no".


I have a 98, 5 speed, bought the car used with 24k on it 2 years ago. Has nearly 40k on it now.

The only thing that has gone wrong with it is the stupid air bag warning light, which I really should get taken care of.

[MikenOH]

We've gotten over 30 replies and only 4-5 repsonses I can reference to particular members with their particular details.

In order to organize the details, could you send me a PM with your particulars--model/year/mileage--all the stuff we've discussed before, so i can start putting this on a spreadsheet?

Thanks for any help with this.

[denverpete]

Originally Posted by MikenOH

We've gotten over 30 replies and only 4-5 repsonses I can reference to particular members with their particular details.

In order to organize the details, could you send me a PM with your particulars--model/year/mileage--all the stuff we've discussed before, so i can start putting this on a spreadsheet?

Thanks for any help with this.

NO - RMS
YES - Replaced engine 13,800 miles
YES - Replaced MAF 14,200 miles (probably related to new engine)
NO - I don't "track"
YES - I have appropriate maintenance performed as scheduled.

1999, non-S, approx 16k miles, purchased "used", manual tranny, driven everyday. As to "driving style" - that's tough. I've always thought I was pretty stylish. No drags or racing but with the rare "need for speed" on wide open empty roads.

Hope this helps your data!

[bnorman]

No problems.
2002 S, 12,000 miles, no mods, only change the oil so far. Week end car.

[TriGem2k]

Originally Posted by MikenOH

We've gotten over 30 replies and only 4-5 repsonses I can reference to particular members with their particular details.

In order to organize the details, could you send me a PM with your particulars--model/year/mileage--all the stuff we've discussed before, so i can start putting this on a spreadsheet?

Thanks for any help with this.

Boxster / 2001 / 45k total miles / RMS fixed - found at 24,750miles.

[rdancd816]

Boxster / 1997 / 11,200k total miles / No RMS / No track / Regular Maintenance
5-speed / spirited driving style but no racing.

[BoxsterSbob]

Hi, I have not had an RMS issue, yet. I've clocked about 10K miles so far.

boxstersbob
2004 S

[YellowJacket]

1997
66k
daily commuter
no track time and minimal spirited driving
all maintenance done on time, +/- 1k miles
bought used
NO RMS

By the way, regarding the .5%-1% requirement for surveys, that's a load of poop. You need around 30-40 responses to start getting directional reads (as in, we could start saying "track cars tend to be more prone than street cars" or whatnot). You need around 500 responses to get reads at 95% confidence, and around 1000 responses to get reads at 97% confidence (have you ever noticed how all those consumer polls by Gallup and whatnot usually specify 3% margin of error with 1006 responses or something like that?). Still, these numbers require that the populations be unbiased and representative of the overall population, but we'd never get that here for 2 reasons:
1. People who've had RMS failure are more likely to respond than those who haven't.
2. Just the fact that you're on a forum for Boxster owners means several things about you that bias the group that would respond here.

Cool concept, but perhaps the only people who could do this survey the RIGHT way is Porsche, and the only people who could do it "almost right" is PCA, unless someone has a national list of Boxster owners floating around. :-)