[DenverSteve]

Almost all of the failure stories start with "my friend" or "someone I knew" etc. That or my car had XXX hours of track time. My dealer service rep. has been with that dealership (one of the largest, if not the largest, Porsche dealers in Colorado. They deal with a lot of Porsches and recall one IMS failure in that decade. It happens but (I believe) at a very very small percentage. I believe those who have had failures should indeed file complaints if their issues were not handled by the factory. He also told me that no amount of babying the car or maintenance will make any difference. If yours is one that will fail, it will fail no matter what.