A bit worried about long term costs and reliability - should I be?

[rondocap]

Thanks for helping me put things into perspective guys, the experience here really shows. That's a good idea - just take one thing at a time. I am having fun as well fixing little issues as they come up myself, and I am sure after some time of doing it my mechanical skills will increase a bit.

So basically, I just have to get "lucky" and hope to avoid a huge problem with the car, like the IMS failing before I can upgrade it. If that doesn't happen, I'll fix the little things one by one. It seems like the IMS problems are only a small percentage of the total cars out there anyway, I guess they are magnified on the forums and we tend to think every Boxster will fail.


Bottom line: I really, really like the car. I love driving it, it's so raw and connected to the driver that it makes it a pleasure. I like cleaning it, washing it, and staring at it, too.

[Perfectlap]

personally, if you intend to keep the car for more than 2 years, and being that you probably have a single row IMS bearing, you should do the IMS sooner than later.
Folks with dual row bearing are probably in a better position to wait for the clutch to go.

The only rub is that the cost of doing a single row bearing is now higher since LN have gone with a permanent fix vs. the previous that had to be replaced after 50K miles.