[WhipE350]

I bought my 2000 Boxster 'S' back in early Nov and have done a ton to it because I'm enjoying working on it. I have followed all the forums closely and must admit on many posts there is a lot of fear out there. I'll probably get bashed for my views, though in general people on the Porsche forums are very nice compare to the Benz forums.

Over the past ten years we have in may aspects become a fear driven society, if it isn't something scary then it isn't news. I felt like for awhile I was driving around in a time bomb. I then stepped back and decided to look at the numbers. If there was a %20 failure rate we would have a major mess. So let's say it is maybe as high as %2, heck I have a higher chance of wrecking my car driving to work each day.

I am not doubting there is an issue and if I can get in my neighbors pit long enough I would redo my clutch, RMS, and IMS and I would probably just replace with a stock one. Peace of mind and the fun in doing it would be worth it alone.
If this was an issue on jumbo jets then I would ground them all until fixed.

This is what I guess, and it is only a guess, Porsche created a poor design and farmed out the building of the bearing and then the bearing builder farmed out the seals. Either there were a certain percentage of seals that were poorly made or the assembly of them into the bearing case had a quality issue. The reason I say this is because if it was simply a matter of poor design then we would be talking that it is only a matter of time "when" the bearing will fail, not an "if" the bearing will fail...we certainly seem to be in the "if" category...though some don't talk this way.

I think all the scary posts could be hurting the value of the Boxster, at a %2 rate it shouldn't be in my view. Now I'm not one of the unlucky ones and sure hope I won't be so that is easy for me to say. I will say I'm glad we do have an informed community and for folks like me I'm happy to know about this so I can make an informed decision, but if I had seen post like %20 before I bought, I wouldn't have got mine.

Drive on!