Premature Engine Failure - Boxster

[Jake Raby]

We've already been seeing them, just not in higher numbers. As these cars come out of warranty over the next few months I know we'll see an increase.

The bad part of it with the '06 and newer engines is the fact that the bearing is larger than the access port in the crankcase. What that means is an absolute impossibility of bearing retrofit as the old bearing cannot be removed.

When one of these bearings starts to go bad, the engine is 100% compromised. Wonderful execution by the engineers, wonderful.