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Maybe. But if you browse the classifieds you'll still find quite a few with 'engine rebuild at 50,000' or whatever in the text.
I'd just get a well serviced one with 60 - 90,000 miles and risk it, but YMMV.
The bore scoring thing is the shitter. It seems that it's one very specific set of circumstances that causes it and that can happen at mile 100 or mile 200,000, or never.
Hefty
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I've been told that if the IMS has not failed by 40,000 miles then it isn't going to. Given the number of old 986s and 996s still driving around quite happily then there may be some truth in this.
If the fear of something that probably isn't going to happen is putting you off buying a car you really want, then don't let it. Buy a 996. Just don't buy a low mileage one.