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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
This seems curious to me. Porsche will pay you $5000 if your engine blows up, but YOU have to pay $1500 to prevent it from blowing up? It seems to me Porsche ought to be beating down your door to get you to let them put the retrofit in for free. Unless ... the profit on a new engine is more that $5000.
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No, it's about probability. $1500 x every M96 engine sold is far more money than $5000 x every M96 engine sold x IMS failure rate. The failure rate is low enough that it doesn't pay for Porsche to go to the field with a recall campaign.
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