New owner with sudden remorse

[Laflamme02]

If you DO decide to go the route of fixing the IMS, here is a quote I recieved from and indepent shop up here in Maine.

"Here are some ball park figures on IMS repairs.
$3500 IMS Solution Home
$2250 IMS Retrofit Gen 2 Gen 2 Single Row Pro IMS Retrofit
+$840 if clutch is needed
+$1035 if flywheel is needed

The above repairs include replacement of the rear main seal, crankcase bolts and upgrading to a spin on oil filter
There are also some other repairs we would recommend at the same time depending on mileage and service history of the vehicle."

End quote.
Does that seem right to people? It seemed way high to me but it IS a direct quote frm a non-dealer Porsche shop.

[Timco]

Originally Posted by Laflamme02

If you DO decide to go the route of fixing the IMS, here is a quote I recieved from and indepent shop up here in Maine.

"Here are some ball park figures on IMS repairs.
$3500 IMS Solution Home
$2250 IMS Retrofit Gen 2 Gen 2 Single Row Pro IMS Retrofit
+$840 if clutch is needed
+$1035 if flywheel is needed

The above repairs include replacement of the rear main seal, crankcase bolts and upgrading to a spin on oil filter
There are also some other repairs we would recommend at the same time depending on mileage and service history of the vehicle."

End quote.
Does that seem right to people? It seemed way high to me but it IS a direct quote frm a non-dealer Porsche shop.

Just for perspective:

Cost of good beer.......$varies depending on individual taste
Drop transmission.....$0 and about 3-4 hours labor
Clutch / DMF / RMS kit from Pelican...$1200 isn't it?
IMS.....$650 to buy, about $250 to have Indy come to you while trans is pulled
Reinstall.
Profit.

Do CV boots and other little stuff while in there. It's all nuts & boots.

More than my Ranger, but reasonable for what it is.

[jdlmodelt]

Wow! the ride on corners and fast speeds in a boxster compared to your jeep on the highway! One was meant for the road and one was meant for the offroad. Enjoy the heck out of your speedster. if it ever gives you any indications of problems don't ignore them. just enjoy the heck out of it. They really ARE a blast to drive.

[jeepdad]

Thank you all so much for the thoughtful replies. I am breathing much easier now.

I'm going to enjoy the car, and set aside the money earmarked for new rims/tires for some of the other issues addressed here.

Questions: there's a shop about 45 minutes down the road operated by a great guy who worked for about 20 years at a Mercedes dealership in St. Louis. Now he is independent and has a good reputation. Worth checking out?

Again, thanks for the feedback.

[mikefocke]

Laflamme, your quote is for a different year and type of IMS and may not apply to the original poster. Labor rates vary by location and the expertise of the mechanic and the competition in the area. Parts come from a distributor so they should be pretty uniform no matter where you go.

You can go broke trying to prevent every type of problem that could occur. You could rebuild the whole engine, suspension, brakes etc. I've over maintained more cars than I under maintained...and generally sold the cars along to the next owner shortly after I finished.

To the OP, if you want to do the IMS, go ahead. You'll be driving a $50k+ car for darn little even after doing that. You'll also be replacing a part that has a failure probability of approximately 1% within the next year. (Before disputing this figure, recall this is a dual row we are talking about here.)

With any used car with lots of miles you are going to have wear issues, a Porsche is not immune. Nor a Toyota. Think of failures as occurring on a bell curve, some will be early, some late. Every wear part, every car. And you don't know where on the curve your part/car will fall.

I spent more over 5 years on a Honda and on my wife's Acura than I ever did on my Porsches over the same period of time. Tires included and I treated my Porsches to better parts!

But every time I drove the Boxster ...