Many have been asking to understand how many of the 997 cars have had IMS (intermediate shaft) failures. Although the people on this board are not necessarilly a random sampling of 997 owners I would like to see a poll to get a better sense of it.

• Please vote only once for each 997 you own (yes or no).. you can post multiple times but only vote once
• Please include details of your car and engine if it failed via IMS (m96 or M97) and when.
• Please let us know if there were any mitigating factors (low oil, overheat, etc) that might've led to the failure
• Please post only about IMS failures, this is not about RMS failures
• Please post only for your car, no heresay or posting for a friend who doesn't frequent the board
• Please post what was done to rectify the failure if your car failed (CPO engine, engine out of pocket, used engine, sold, insurance fire, pushed it into a river etc)

Hopefully this will help owners and soon-to-be owners get a sense of how frequently this occurs.

*Thanks*

 

2009 - 997.2 C2S - NO failure

 

2006 - 997.1 C4S - NO failure

 

2008 C2S - No failure

 

2007 C2 43K miles and No failure.

 

05 C2 30k miles...no failure...so far

 

08 997 C2S 12K miles - no issues

 

06 C2S, m97 motor, no problemo!

Great idea for a thread rich! If unscientific, still quite interesting and will give some idea of the range of this problem.





Phil

 

05 C2S Cab, 56k miles. No issues

 

05 C2 So far so good, 10K miles, uses no oil.

 

-06 C4S, 43,000 miles, no issues.

 

negative. 36k so far, plenty of track too.

 

2007 C4S - 12K miles - No IMS Failure.

 

'05 C2S, 26kmi no IMS failure

 

2006 Carrera S, 14k, no issues.