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Originally Posted by mts

I do not buy that at all. I don't believe the 20% failure rate, but I wouldn't be surprised at all at 2-5%. And by failure rate I don't mean $2k repair and you are out the door, we are talking $10k and up complete rebuilds/replacements. By any statistical measure 2-5% for complete failures is horrific compared to other top cars on the market.

Yes, I am one of the one that has experienced an IMS failure and am dealing with aftermath of that now on a 2004 car with 20k miles. However, Excellence Magazine has devoted 2 full articles (with a 3rd one due later this year) to the IMS issue and the lead guy dealing with the repairs/upgrades (Flat 6) is working on a 2 month to almost 1 year back-log depending on what is needed. Those facts alone tell me the issue is not insignificant.

I wonder if the 04 SE in particular, was a problem edition. I've seen at least 04 Special Edition Boxsters with IMS failures on various Pcar forums over the years. Was yours an SE?