not all will fail abruptly though. I'll go out on a limb and say a high percentage of Porsche owners take their car to the dealer regularly for service and inspection.

but on Zdan's note: blow an engine on the highway or track, car behind you could wreck and that could equal bad stuff.

 

From what I gather, most do fail abruptly. I.e., you have *seconds* between the time you hear a vague rattly noise before the engine is totally wrecked. I don't think it's "inspectable" either. I.e., you could get a clean bill of health and have a failure immediately after. I'm also pretty sure that the dealer is going to toe the company line of denial of the existence of a problem. I would trust a known good independent way before I'd trust a dealer on this.

I totally agree that failure *could* lead to injury, but I've been through vehicle FMEAs before, and generally this type of failure isn't considered to be a 9/10 or 10/10, even though under certain circumstances injury could result.

 

you're probably more right than me. it's not in a place that can be inspected without a ton of labor. not something a person or Porsche is willing to pay unless there's a serious symptom.

http://youtu.be/h1lLWRPzdNA?t=3m15s

watch from 3:15 to at least 4:30

 

There's really no way to inspect the engine for the health of the IMS. Best you can do is install a magnetic oil plug and check it for shavings every time the oil is changed. Porsche lost a class action lawsuit over the IMS failures, btw. So if you owned one of the afflicted cars you can get some significant loot from them if you had a failure.

http://www.imsporschesettlement.com/

BTW, note that this is for the 996 and pre-2006 Boxster. The Cayman was NOT included because their IMS failure rate is too low to include them. You better believe if the lawyers could have included Cayman owners they would have (more money for them).

 

that's Sad to hear about the Caymans.

 

Huh?

 

No support for the same issue. Happened to me with axles on my 06' 350z. Tsb covered the previous models but not mine. Horse shit.

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Ah, I see what you mean.

There's no support for the same issue because instances of Cayman IMS failures are so few they're statistically insignificant.