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Originally Posted by thstone
I feel your pain.
The only question I have is if 10 years/130,000 miles is inadequate; what parameters do you think would be adequate?
When I thought about this question, I found it hard for me to come to a conclusion that seemed fair to those who have suffered failures and yet fair to the mfg who can't be expected to warranty low-mile cars forever.
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I guess my answer to that is get rid of the years and go strictly by miles. A majority of Porsche owners put low miles each year on their cars. The IMS bearings that fail seem to, for the most part, happen early in the mileage but the cars are 10 years old before they even hit the 50,000 mile mark. Most IMSB failures happen in the 02-05 cars and those autos are almost past the ten year old mark anyway. Porsche lawyers aren't stupid. They are trying to save face when they should have recalled those faulty parts and fixed the problem but it isn't a safety issue so they swept it under the rug. Face it, most of the cars in the year range of the class haven't had a failure but they are past the ten year mark and way below the mileage. Ticking time bombs. Sure you can spend 2k and get some piece of mind so that is what we do. Too bad the IMSB failures don't start the car on fire. You can bet that Porsche would have a different solution then.