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I have a question about the IMS and 2006-2008 (and some 2005) engines: So you buy the Guardian or you check manually more often and you see metal in the oil. In an early Boxster, you replace the IMS, let's say with clutch, etc it costs $2-3k. How much does the cost go up to open the engine and replace the IMS in the 987 (up to 2008)? Any ideas? Probably not a typical job, since once the IMS goes (before the Guardian) you would need to be very lucky to catch it early enough (or other failures).
I've been reading this and other forums, looking for a boxster project car, and when you check the carfax, which I know are not perfect, however: So many of the cars which have (what look like complete) service histories have oil changes only at 15k miles. Especially what appear to be leases. I own several cars now, none of them have 15k service intervals. (even if they did, I would change oil no later than 5k). This 15k service interval seems insane to me.
Mark
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