Buying with IMS replaced

[JFP in PA]

Originally Posted by Nedlands

It's an old chestnut. My 2000 S will be for sale soon. 43k miles and I haven't replaced IMS but done lots of other PM work (AOS, wpump, etc). My view is that the oil is changed regularly, the car driven properly and doesn't make weird noises. If I was holding onto it then I would likely do the IMS because that's "what you do".
Any time someone talks to me about the car though or even when I read other sale ads all I hear is "Has the IMS been done?".
So the question is - "would no IMS replacement be a deal breaker?
Thoughts?

When we do a PPI for a perspective buyer, lack of an IMS update is a "deduct" item, meaning the buyer should pay less for this car than they would for comparable car with the retrofit. If the car has been retrofitted, which retrofit would determine the +/- value to the car. For example, a car with an IMS Solution installed has greater value than one with a plain steel retrofit, and so on.