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Battlegoat
Jul 24, 2003


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2006 997.1 C2S



After replacing the "lobster forks."

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Battlegoat
Jul 24, 2003


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My 2006 has the same issue. The fan switch was already well worn when I bought it with 45k miles.

Battlegoat
Jul 24, 2003


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The Wonder Weapon posted:

I just bought an 08 Cayman with 30k miles (picking it up this weekend) and a co-worker started telling me about the IMS bearing issue. I had seen mention of it while researching the car but I didn't realize how catastrophic of a failure it was until he explained it a bit.

What should I do? Are there reliable preventive measures? Am I 100% rolling the die on this? Is it so bad that I should cancel the purchase?
The IMS issue is there, but the design was updated in '06 and is a much less common failure on cars of that year or newer.

I wouldn't worry about it, but there is a retrofit if you are so inclined: http://imsretrofit.com/my06-08/

Battlegoat
Jul 24, 2003


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willie_dee posted:

And you put them on hard mode on the better roads?

As someone who used to have a 997.1 with PASM and now has a 997.2 with Sport PASM: there might be a road smooth enough somewhere for hard mode to be good, but I haven't driven on it.

Battlegoat
Jul 24, 2003


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Gorgar posted:

I turn on sport mode, including PASM, when I start the car and hardly ever turn it off.

Either I am getting old and soft (probably) or you have much better roads where you live. It's really going to come down to that/personal preference, I think.

Battlegoat
Jul 24, 2003


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Larrymer posted:

What the hell, where is the engine? They put some paneling over it in the trunk?

wallaka posted:

It's a mid-engine car, the engine is in the middle.

To illustrate:

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Battlegoat
Jul 24, 2003


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https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/03/the-porsche-cayman-gt4-with-the-magic-carpet-ride/
(written by our own drgitlin)

So, I posted before here about how my C2S with Sport PASM was too rough in the "hard" setting. I actually picked up and installed one of those DSC Sport modules a couple weeks ago, and it has just about transformed the car. I don't know how or why Porsche left so much on the table with the suspension tuning, but somehow it both rides and handles better now.

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