You'all scare me...................

[Jake Raby]

We have 4 IMSR procedures scheduled for December...

I never said that hundred thousand plus mile cars don't exist, I said we haven't had any in our facility this year with that many miles.. And like I said, most cars have been at our facility because they have failed- we don't do general service work or simple repairs like an INDY shop.

Like I said, finally people are seeing that issues can happen to anyone and any car and they are taking the required steps to ensure their engine is properly protected. All the cars we saw this year with intermix could have avoided that failure with a simple water pump replacement..

We see more failed engines than anyone in the US, because the failure prevention and repair is our primary focus along with engine development.. I expect tomorrow to be a busy day on the phones, any "failure Monday" is busy but after a 4 day weekend we might set another record!

[pothole]

Originally Posted by Jake Raby

I never said that hundred thousand plus mile cars don't exist, I said we haven't had any in our facility this year with that many miles..

Fair enough. What exactly was your point, then, in highlighting that you haven't seen any cars above 95k this year and only one last year? On the face of it, the clear inference is that such cars are at the very least quite rare.

[Jake Raby]

The point was all the failures we've seen this year have occurred with vehicles less than 100K miles.

Many more people use the M96 powered Porsches for daily driving than ealier Porsche models.. Thats because they have creature comforts that the older cars simply didn't have..

Good A/C, real heat, power brakes and power steering are not things my first few generations of Porsches had.. Due to that those cars were 2nd, 3rd of 4th vehicles where many Boxsters are primary vehicles...

[pothole]

Originally Posted by Jake Raby

The point was all the failures we've seen this year have occurred with vehicles less than 100K miles.

OK, and what do you learn from that?

[Highlow]

My car has 73.5k, I bought it at 62k in feb.

I didn't know about the IMS issues before I bought but I did get a PPI (not a very good one apparently)

I lost sleep a few nights due to worrying about the car breaking, but then I realized something.

The cars isn't fun if you worry about it constantly.

I drive the piss out of mine at least once per week, usually more.


The only major issue I've had was replacing the WP even though it had been replaced just before I bought it(or so they say).


If something breaks, oh well, it's just money. But if a 1k repair is going to break the bank, you really shouldn't have one of these anyway.

Buy it, drive it hard.

[clickman]

Originally Posted by Highlow

if a 1k repair is going to break the bank, you really shouldn't have one of these anyway.

I don't think most are concerned with the 1k bills, it's the multi-k bills resulting from a blown engine.

[Steve Tinker]

pothole,
I think what Jake Raby is trying to get over is that all of the broken engines he has seen this year have been comparativly low mileage (under 100,000 miles) catastrophic failures as apposed to "worn out" by high mileage.
Probably if he was in the servicing game instead of the "Help, my egine's just died, what can I do" game, he would see a lot more high mileage M96 engined cars in his shop.