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Originally Posted by z12358
Jim, the Porsche guy gave the other guy some advice. That's all. It wasn't a press release that blamed the customers for the RMS. I agree, the fact that the RMS problem happens so often and has remained unresolved for so long is inexcusable, and this thread did not intend to provide an excuse for it either.
RMS happens to some, and doesn't happen to others. No one can prove that short drives during break-in contribute (among other factors) to increased chances for RMS, but no one can prove that it doesn't either.
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But since no one can prove it (because it just isn't so), it shouldn't be presented as a possible cause. Where's the critical thought? This is how Urban Myth happens. Maybe the Salesman was just being a
Salesman, ever think of that?
No one can prove that it doesn't? Well, lets see, there have been approx. 160,000 Boxsters produced and RMS failure, as best as can be estimated (since Porsche isn't saying, or tracking 2nd hand cars or independent shops), is running between 20-25% (a little conservative based on this Forum's own poll, but it's a casual poll and not subject to strict controls, and 20-25% is what a PCNA Area Service Rep told me in a conversation with a Dealer who confirmed his number).
So, that would mean that between 32,000 and 40,000 cars have been affected. Even if that many people disregarded the Break-in procedures (to varying degrees), that's still too high a failure rate to blame soley on the operator.
Not proving a negative does not open a possibility, that it could happen. Just because one can't prove there aren't little green men from Mars does not raise the possibility in the least that there are. Or that since water freezes at 32°F (given normal conditions), but because
all water hasn't been frozen, or measured, that there's a possibility that it may not
all freeze at 32°F, that somewhere there may be a mystical volume of water which will behave differently than the laws of physics demand. At least in the real world, that's how it works, now Kurt Vonnegut's
Ice Nine might be an exception were it not just fiction. Don't confuse the metaphysical with the physical..
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99