jonttt
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alex yates said:jonttt said:I thought porsche had done this in disclosure during the usa legal case. If anything they would have down played the stats disclosed not played them up. I can't see how you are ever going to get better than that in terms of reliable stats :cop:
Maybe all the bad ones have failed. Maybe one will never fail again,:dont know:
all I'm trying to understand is - what's the situation with IMS bearing failures in today's climate cos I've never seen one yet! But I know it's reputation has crippled the model.
If every member who owned a 996 responded to this post with data on their car it would represent what was happening. There must be at lLeast 200 members with NA 996s.
OK, so you want to see what percentage of regular forum users have had IMS bearing failures, fine just not sure what that will prove :dont know:
You are trying to prove the actual current incidence based on that small sample will show the actual failure rate is less than the that quoted in the USA class action. I'm sure it will. I am also sure that will not affect the supressed value of these cars based on the problem.
Are you also going to include bore scoring which is (probably) more common and based on the recent comments made by Hartech on here (the accepted experts in the UK) likely to happen to all 996's at some point :dont know:
Ie how can you expect just looking at one of the major issues to affect values :dont know:
No doubting your motives but short of the DVLA forcing current owners to respond to a questionnaire about all known issues it will never be achievable.
To me a combination of the USA class action stats as a baseline AND the likely reasons for the IMS failure as discussed on the recent (great IMHO) IMS failure thread would be more meaningful information ie a combination of an assumed baseline and likely variance to this over time given the likely root cause (combination of manufacturing tolerance and bearing seal failure, both affecting cars at different mileage ranges )