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Originally Posted by Crowbob
IMS.
Any company, prideful of it’s engineering heritage, willing to sell VERY expensive cars with the added benefit of being able to unpredictably grenade because of poor engineering and not make every effort to advise, forewarn retrofit and/or replace the ruined engines, will not get my business.
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That's one perspective. I honestly respect that.
I think for all the numbers of smaller bearing IMS cars (early 2005) that went boom, the percentage is 8% or so. The larger bearing cars are like 2%, i think. (2006 to the 997.2.)
Let's say someone told you that you have a 92% chance of winning the jackpot lotto. Will you buy that ticket? Some equate 997 ownership in the same vein. And others build their motor of their dreams, or add a LN Engineering final solution as part of the ownership experience.
There's also the cylinder scoring issues of both 997.1 and 997.2 cars which really seem to be more of an issue, according to some. The 997.2 cars have the PDK issues as well.
So, not knocking the trepidation of owning a 997.
To each is own. :-)