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Originally Posted by Gilles
Hello Pete, congratulations on your Boxter!
Out of curiosity, why did you decided to install the EPS roller bearing, instead of the regular ball bearing?
Obviously you have the right to install anything you want on your car, but personally, I have Not read any positive reviews about the EPS roller bearings
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Thank you.
Looking foreward to summer now.
No? Have you googled specificly then? Because trawling both this and the BoXa.net forum yealds plenty of positive feedback from people who have it, and with extensive searching and googling, I could not find a single well documented failure, unlike the FVD Brombacher bearing (rebranded SKF bearing) which both Porsche Classic Center (porsche's own center focused on the classics, there are 4 of these centers worldwide) and AutoTech-Sport wanted to use (the only two willing to do the job). FVD is a regular sealed ball bearing like the one originally in the car, but apparently even more failure prone with documented posts of failures after as few as 20 000 km. Porsche classic center recommended against doing anything at all, as they had not seen a orginal IMS failure in 13 years, but three failures of a changed ims (fvd brombacher is my guess). They actually called the whole IMS issue "an american problem", and said they rarely change them. True enough, very, very few 986/996 on the marked have had ims changed in the time I have looked at adverts. I decided to change it anyway, but I'm not putting in the same flawed thing as I am replacing, no way.
The EPS could easily be ordered from design911 in the UK with VAT agreement with Norway, and almost no delivery fee. Also, it comes with a flange so I did not have to figure out if i had a dual or singel row which would cost me as the car would then need to have gearbox out, and then be stuck at the workshop as i waited for the bearing to arrive. So it seemed like the obvious and most hassle free choice, as i would not want another bearing identical to the original.