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Old 11-18-2016, 06:51 AM   #1
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Most IMS failures happened below 30K miles, probably due to bad batch of bearings. Porsche seemed perfectly content to replace the bearing with the exact same part number as when it was new. I would not worry about a car that has over 50k miles on it.
My 2003 986S failed two months ago with 105k miles. Don't buy into the "good at 30k good for 230k" fallacy
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Old 11-18-2016, 06:02 PM   #2
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Mfm22 has a great deal of input from the forum - so please tell us what you've decided to do!! Thanks.
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