I see the letters RMS always being talked about, and now that i feel better about the smoke in the mornings once in a while, is there anything I whould worry about at 27,000 miles? the car seems to be perfect, but still just wanna be on teh safe side.


Dr Jeremy B

 

Are you serious??? Try performing a search. The search function works wonders and will give you reading form here to the end of time on RMS.

 

Dell is right, a search will do wonders. But the short and sweet (or in some cases sour) is Rear Main Seal.

 

RMS = Rear Main Seal. In layman's term basically it is a round gasket seal on the input shaft that separates the engine from the transimission, and basically it leaks and causes dirty driveways.

Input shaft = the other end of the crank shaft where the circular motion of the engine is transfered to the transmission.

There are many debated reasons why it leaks... will not go there for now.

Minor cases, dirty driveway
Serious cases it will cause the clutch to be contanminated and slipe.....

 

Thanks for the info, I did do a search before this post, but only found the term RMS, but didnt really get the meaning. Promise I'm not lame, but I Just hope mine doesn't leak. So what else goes wrong with these cars 02 996, on a regular basis?

 

Engine blows up... LOL!

 

Only if bought at a Ford Dealer...............Sorry Bob , it was too easy

 

We don't bring up the letters RMS around here...they are evil

 

RMS = Rear Main Sieve

RMS = Really Mad Servicetech

RMS = Radically Mean Speed

 

RMS = Robert's (Bob's) Motor Siezed

 

 

Haven't noticed Bob on here in a while. He must have sold his car.

 

RMS = Real messy spot

RMS = Rats Money Shift

 

He might still be walking down home after his 6th engine blew up.

 

Paul, that was cold...... but funny!

Speaking of Bob, I haven't seen any posts from him in about 3 weeks or so. Actually, there are a few others that have been MIA: Itzkirb, Robyn, RLandis, haven't heard anything from him in 6 months.