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Originally Posted by Boxtaboy
What I want to know is how someone like MarcW can get over 300k miles (and still going) on his 02 Boxster with original IMS. I thought it's not a matter of if, but when.
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For some it is, others not so much. We also have customers that have gone well over 200K with the factory bearings, and others have not made it to 50K. As with all production mechanical systems, some will go on nearly forever, but others will die prematurely for various reasons. But one inescapable is the Porsche's own data from the lawsuit: Of the single row engines produced between 2000 and 2006, approximately one in ten won't make it, and for the earlier dual rows the odds are somewhat better at 1-2% (no real hard numbers are known for the third generation bearings as they were not part of the legal action).
So it comes down to individual's risk tolerance levels; we have had customers trade in cars because of their concern, others have chosen to take preventative steps, and others simply decided to ignore it. All a mater of personal choices.
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