Unhappy Boxster Owner

[ChrisW]

ORIGINAL: Peter Bull

Best of luck with you endeavours.

But I doubt it will do anything other than add to Clarksons riducule and loathing of all things Porsche.

It could also have a detrimental effect of reducing the value of our cars on the second hand market.

So is this a logic for disgruntled owners to be "isolated" --- or a reason for Porsche to stop playing hardball with the "few" owners who do suffer these problems ?

Is the retail pricing of Porsches now so "tight" that this cannot be built in to the pricing model ?

Or are there so many failures that Porsche simply cannot deal properly with them all ?

In my view Porsche are building a crisis of confidence out of a solvable problem ...

Admitting a problem and solving it is no disgrace. And in fairness, the 5k new engine would have been (in my view) a reasonable outcome. Others seem to have received far less accommodating offers than this, and even so the customer has "walked.

Porsche can't "win-em all" --- but this is rumbling on in a ridiculous way ...

Maybe the compulsory three year warranty ? is a way forwards in this respect, though what is the standard warranty in the USA ?

 

[Richard_Hamilton]

ORIGINAL: kitchens

Richard
I have a 987  2.7 Boxster Reg May 2006 how can I tell if it has got the upgrade seal is there a engine number check list
Brian

I mean IMS  

If the engine code is M97.20, M97.21, or M97.22 on the VIL in the maintenance booklet, then you have the 'latest' intermediate shaft.

 

[berty987]

ORIGINAL: johnbay

As it happens, I also emailed Top Gear last night about this.

As you say if they receive sufficient emails, perhaps they will take it up

Smart idea..then no one will be able to sell their car as everyone will be panicking over IMS issues ,one sure way to knock about 1000 - 3000 pounds of the value of your car is to start scaremongering.

If you buy an expensive car such as a porsche outside of the manufacturers warranty and dont have the funds to maintain it , then get a warranty from one of the independants such as warranty wise or warranty direct. The ims bearing and stub carrier can be replaced in situ as an aftermarket upgrade on some models , costs are about 1000 pounds. It depends if you want to safeguard against the issue or chance that it won't happen to you. Since there is no definitive answer as to how and why it fails there is no way of knowing if your particular car will ever suffer such a failure.

 

[rob.kellock]

ORIGINAL: Richard Hamilton

Without wishing to sound disrespectful, most reports of failures are by people who join forums after the event. On the 996 forum I can only recall one intermediate shaft failure in the 6 years I have been a member.

That'll be me then!

 

[s2rjn]

alternatively berty987......porsche would agree to repair the IMS problems FOC and everyones fears would be eased

i wouldn't say folking out £11,000 for an engine re-build on a 10 year old boxster worth £10k could be classed as 'funds to maintain' either!

 

[kitchens]

Just checked my car and on the VIN it states
M96 25 -616 A8701-136 is this the old engine as is a 06 reg car
also what are these code relating to
196.198.249.423.432.502.551.567.635.680.946.
it was registered on 18/5/06 and is C 16 uk car
Can any of you teckies help Richard []

 

[Mark_Bennett]

Some of these evidently out of date and reused... But

http://www.kindel.com/porsche/options.asp shows:


Code Option Description
249 Automatic transmission
423 Cassette container and coin box
432 Sports steering wheel, leather 363mm (4 spokes)
432 Lateral stripes, Martini [1978-1982]
551 Air Deflector (Cabriolet)
567 Windshield green graduated tint
680 Digital Sound
946 Leather/leatherette seats

 

[kitchens]

Thanks Mark ....defiantly does not have Martini stripes .... also not sure about the sports steering wheel will check it out ..

 

[Richard_Hamilton]

ORIGINAL: kitchens

Just checked my car and  on the VIN it states
M96 25 -616 A8701-136 is this the old engine as is a 06 reg car
also what are these code relating to
196.198.249.423.432.502.551.567.635.680.946.
it was registered on 18/5/06 and is  C 16 uk car
Can any of you teckies help Richard []

Sorry, looking up the engine codes again I see that the 'older' engine was used in MY2006 as well as MY2005 cars.

If you drop me an email with your VIN, I'll look up those codes (and the build codes) for you.

 

[kitchens]

Richard
This is all the info that is on the white sticker in the service book posted on the previous thread

VIN Chassis no WPOZZZ98Z6U703797
Engine no 61607798

Hope this helps

Brian