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Originally Posted by WolfpackS2k
There are plenty of people with over 200,000 miles on their Caymans. 911s as well (I'm sure), but I don't frequent 911 message forums. I'm over 100,000 miles on mine and am not the slightest bit nervous about that.
As to your example of Porsche not giving it's cars LSDs...guess what, most of them don't really need it! When the engine is mounted above or behind the drive wheels all that weight ensures the right tires have plenty of grip. (of course this statement doesn't apply to FWD because under acceleration weight transfers off those wheels). Lotus doesn't equip it's Elise with an LSD. Wouldn't surprise me if the Alfa 4C doesn't have one either. You don't really need an LSD unless you're making silly amounts of power.
The newer (than my Porsche) 981 has the option of an active LSD to improve it's handling, but this is partially done to help "shrink" the size of the car since it's longer and has a bigger wheelbase than the 987 that preceded it.
In fact the rear of my car has so much grip that when driven in cold weather at parking lot speeds, any extreme steering angle results in the front tires skipping/slipping on the pavement surface a bit. It's a strange characteristic inherent to all 987s and 981s (and probably others as well).
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Yep. The internet can be a blessing for information or a horror story that builds out of nothing.
Anybody reading this forum would be positive all the crank bearings are going to spin. When I was on the DSM forum it appeared that every car would develop crank walk. In the Porsche example people are convinced they will all blow up as soon as warranty expires. None of any of those are true of course but since people only hear about the issues they forget (or ignore?) that these examples are a very tiny minority of the cars.
If there is indeed an issue with the
majority of any car there
will be a recall (i.e. the 2014 911 GT3 or the Focus RS).
Back in the day before the internet people were not nearly as worried about failures since you didn't hear about every single one and only found out if it impacted the majority of cars.