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I just sold my Boxster after 6 years of ownership to someone who never even drove the car. All he did was listen to me describe it and judged from my approach to it that I was a maintenance fanatic. He got 4 inches of documents, manuals, CDs and perhaps 5 years of magazines plus maintenance supplies. So there are cars like that out there, you just have to keep looking and not settle.
I had not done the IMS relying on the statistic that my chances were less than 1% that in the next year I'd have the problem. I did change the oil frequently and run the engine to high RPMs when warm.
The time to do the IMS is when the trans is out for a clutch. Some clutches go 200k, some 20k. Depends on the clutch, the driver's skill, the terrain.
PedrosGarage.com has a PPI or pre-purchase inspection discussion which you should find useful (disclaimer: I helped him develop his form by supplying the one I had had done on my car when I bought it.) If I was in FL and wanted to know the condition of a car I was buying, I'd enlist Pedro to find me a car or at least do a PPI. He races his personal Boxster with over 200k miles.
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