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Ims
Is it fair on the consumer, I mean the used car consumer, the guy who saves for years to buy his first Porsche, the guy who cannot bear the cost of a new engine, the guy who sees bog standard ill maintained Fords lasting well over 200,000 miles and has NO idea of the hazards when purchasing what he is told is one of the finest engineered cars made.
It is a scandal when ONE small bearing failure can totally wreck an engine, if the failure numbers in the 987 are so small Porsche should be prepared to replace all those engines, the last fix by Porsche has condemned future owners of those mid 2005-2009 cars to an extremely expensive repair when that bearing shows any signs of wear and it will.
Perhaps someone can inform me of any other manufacturer using this type of bearing within the confines of their engine. If Porsche cared about their second user customers they would never have inserted a bearing they knew would fail at ANY time and could NOT be replaced at reasonable cost.
I am UK retired, I sold my late 2005 Boxster S with 15,000 miles and the final IMS fix, It was a summer car doing about 2,000 per year, it was a ticking time bomb, If it had been an early cheap to fix 2005 car I would never have sold it.
I now have a Gen2 2.9 car with NO DFI, can`t get carbon buildup on this engine.
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