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Originally Posted by mikefocke
"Then why do so few M96s make it to that point?? I agree that there are exceptions, but I rarely get calls from anyone with more than 85K"
Maybe the reason you don't hear from high mileage owners with problems is because your prices are so high that they are just swapping in engines from wrecks as the only economically reasonable alternative to junking the car without investigating you beyond a quick internet price search. When the car is worth $10k running perfectly as many 986s are, it is hard to pay up to double that for an engine. It isn't like these will be collectibles and the emotional attachment of the owner may not be as high as we saw with 914s and 911s. Plus lots of 986 owners have a very different economic profile from the 914/911 owners. (Not disputing the worth of your work or the value received for the money you charge...just that it is high relative to the value of the car's value and so the sample you get is very selective. If my engine blows, I'll ship you my car but it wouldn't make economic sense as I could replace the car for 50-75% of the replacement engine cost. I'll do it for emotional reasons and because I can and not everyone is in that position.)
And I don't understand your wording that "so few M96s make it to that point". You don't hear from 85k+ Boxster owners who aren't having trouble so how can you compare failures to success numbers and say "so few"?
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You said it Mike.
It is all about sample size, but more importantly, a non-biased sample.
My 2000 S is approaching 80k miles and I have (thankfully) not encountered any of these issues yet. This does not make me an authority on these cars because 1 out of the many millions in the world has not gone bad by 80k.
It is my belief that the best thing anyone can do is to heed the warnings of those in the know, but at the same time use just a modicum of common sense to understand how and why the experts hold such opinions to be true. Nothing can beat backing up one's statements with hard facts and figures, after all, a measurement is not an opinion.