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Old 05-14-2011, 06:38 AM   #170
Bobiam
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Originally Posted by mikefocke
any car can go boom. Just got quoted $7800 to replace the trans in my wife's Acura. 7/70 warranty on a known defective trans and mine went at 10/72. So AAMCO fixed it for $4k less with a 3/36 warranty nationwide transferable.

So far my Boxster has been much cheaper to repair than either of my non-Porsche products of the same era. Too small a sample but at least it counters the sample of 3 posted above.
An automatic trans is small change compared to an IMS crashed Porsche engine. This disaster is happening to people who's cars are only worth 50% +/- more that the repair cost.
Transmissions are almost expected to fail......maybe somewhere between 70,000 and 150,000 miles. And that's not too bad when you consider the cost of replacement with a warrantee as you have shared with us. An IMS failure can occur between 30K and never, and it can easily cost $12,000.
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