Everybody is always going “IMS, IMS”, but in fact, these engines have a lot of other issues that can lead to a premature death. Or, in some cases, make it look like that is the case (and the fix is quite cheap).

Examples: Oil in the water / water in the oil / 20 litres of light-brown sludge in the system. Yeeeah, most…

What people forget is that even the old Porsches had catastrophic engine failures. The air cooled Mezger Engines had to be taken apart at certain intervals and serviced, and if you didn’t install new bolts to secure the individual 6 heads (Dilas) then you were almost certain to grenade your engine down the road.
Oh,…

Sorry, aber I cannot let your post stand like this, because it contains factual errors. The failure rate for MY2005-2007 of the IMS bearing is at about 1%. This is actually lower than most MY of the M96-engine. And again, ist more consistent with my observation that a lot of early engines were swapped out as a whole…

The car was apparently imported to Germany after the first owner (an older lady) sold it - it had done 90.000km until then, I have the carfax and everything from when it was imported.
After that it traded hands 2 times and was used by a motorsports tv person as his daily driver to commute - hence the kilometers.
So it…

A 997 without issues would be more in the 30.000-40.000€ range, depending on cosmetics. The cars were 100.000€ when new (without extras), don’t forget that. And it doesn’t have the “fried egg” headlights - that alone commands a 5-10.000€ premium over a similar 996 to many people.
Completely unjustified to me, but hey,…

Overall less than 10% of all cars with the M96 engine were affected. Also, numbers are probably even far lower, because the symptoms often led to a misdiagnosis, and Porsche often replaced whole engines without telling people what was really wrong (a lot of 996 have engines with a serial number hinting at a…

No, but I replaced almost all of the vacuum lines and the vacuum reservoir behind the alternator (cheap 15€ part) which improved overall car behaviour dramatically!

As I own a 996 with more than 200.000km on the clock and no IMS problems, and knowing a lot of other people with cars with a mileage like that and no engine problems, I think it is safe to say that these cars want to be driven. If you do that, then they’ll pose less problems than if you just let them sit for most of…

not in Europe. Basically, if you install shit like that in your car in Germany, you will lose your roadworthiness and can be pulled off the street at any time. And if the part might have something to do with an accident you’re involved in, the insurance company can sue you to pay back all the money they had to shell…

Best advice would probably be not to go to a dealership that is so desperate to sell stuff that they use these tactics.
I have been at some pretty sleazy dealerships, but none of them would have resorted to stuff like this ever. Most of them were like “if you don’t buy it ok, tomorrow someone else will”.

On the other hand, if she would show up in a Beetle RSI, complete with vase on the dash with a flower in it, she’d probably have a sick sense of humour ;)

“dfg” works in any language, “dumb fucks good”.
Or, if you want do word it a little bit nicer: “Praised be the simple minded” (“Selig sind die geistig armen” in German).
They just don’t think about problems, consequences and stuff, they just live, “do”, eat and sleep. Sometimes I think it would be a blessing not having…

*laughs in Apple* have they?
A lot of products ship intentionally broken, but the defects are hidden as to not appear right from the start so that you may not return them. We even got a shipment of networks cards once from a large manufacturer that had several pairs with duplicated MAC addresses. Stuff like this should…

I have backups of all the games I bought, in case my game drive goes down and I don’t have the patience to re-download them. Won’t do me any good if the authentication servers are down though.
If digital storefronts go down at any time we will be probably locked out of a lot of our bought content anyway, it’s just a…

what good would that be? CDPR does not use any copy protection on their games. If you want to copy them, there’s nothing stopping you from doing so. You can download an offline installer for every CDPR game you have bought and just... install and play it anywhere you like.

I hope that the lawsuit gets dismissed for her failure to use common sense. Something that is used to glue stuff together so that it never separates again... well I don’t get it how or why it should be explained to any human being with half a brain that you don’t put that stuff in your hair.

Also, what really pains me…

If you disassembled controllers from older consoles to newer ones, then one thing becomes apparent: While the precision of the analogue sticks has probably increased, the size of their bases on the PCB has constantly become slimmer, while more features (clicky buttons under the sticks) have been added - which also…

72p looks similar to the first Comanche Game back in the 90s :D (Maximum Overkill was its sub-title iirc)

Volvo 850 T5 manual.
Get a modded ECU, a TME exhaust with fitting downpipe and cat (70% less back pressure) compared to stock exhaust), some nice coilovers (KW), some bigger, better brakes but leave the stock tyre size on 17 inch rims (don’t use the T5-R or R wheels (Titan or Satellite) - they are both too heavy).
Use…

Ford bled Volvo dry. They acquired the company, and then proceeded to suck as much technological info out of them as they could, but not investing a shit.
Volvo had just prior built a whole new family of engines in cooperation with Porsche (the 4,5 and 6 cylinder engines for the 850, 960/V90 and V40 respectively - the…