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YOUR RESEARCHIMS special at Speedsport tuning, a direct mail I got
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I have a 99 with 117k miles and clean oil analysis.
IMS special at Speedsport tuning, a direct mail I got
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Also on it were a $199 oil change (dealer is $350) and a $249 alignment.
IMS special at Speedsport tuning, a direct mail I got
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I thought it interesting, and very straight forward to offer a fixed-price service on IMS.
I have no affiliation.
It was a direct mail postcard I got. I live about 30 minutes from speedsport in Danbury, CT.
The price, $1,895 was offered for any M96 engine. Also on it were a $199 oil change (dealer is $350) and a $249 alignment. All great prices from a highly regarded shop. Good till April it said.
I have a 99 with 117k miles and clean oil analysis. I am not having it done. By anyone.
But if I had a later model I would.
The postcard did not have details of parts used.
His '99 has a dual row. Later model years had single row which are more prone to failure. Changeover was sometime during MY '00 & '01 - I believe the only way to tell for sure which bearing those cars have is to see the bearing. Someone else may have better info. Or you could hit the "search" button and find a nauseating amount of info on this topic.
Okay, I thought that might be what he meant though from the threads I've read, the percentage difference between documented failures of dual row vs. single row are negligible and hardly worth mentioning.
The numbers actually show a distinct difference in failure rates, 1% vs 8% IIRC. What I think ahs been established is that this particular bearing, whether single or dual row, is a wear item. It would be prudent to service it each time the clutch needs replacement which seems to fall in the 60-80k mile range for most of these cars. At 117k, I think the IMS is on borrowed time but by then so are the chain tensioners, cylinders, rod bolts and a couple dozen other parts. So do you spend $2k just to lose a rod bolt next week? To each his own but, all of the info is out there to peruse.
