A pessimistic attitude and the frequency of the problem children is typical of what you will read about the motor on the internet. Rarely do you read about the high mileage motors where owners have had, except for maintenance and replacement of worn out parts, trouble free and fun driving.
Granted the motors between 2000-2005, which were the motors in the class action lawsuit, have the highest percentage of failures due, primarily, to the switch from a double row to single row IMS. Consider the total number of cars built in those years and those percentages are not that many actual cars that went belly up.
Still no one should own something that causes them constant worry, life is too short for the constant thought that something will go wrong because it will put a worry factor into everything you do with it.
Sell it and buy something you won't worry about (so much) and can have fun with.
Mena
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