Provisional results from the recent engine fail poll:
http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=924916
Included in the 42 votes (Now 43) were a lot of mistaken votes, but they were spread through all the model years so the overall ratio of fails/model year remains similar.
Same goes for the non replies - I ended up reading through all their posts (that wasn't at all tiresome!) to see if they gave any indication at of all of ever having an engine problem and all but one didn't (I included his as a fail).
1/ From the votes only (including even if it was a report of a third party fail):
2008 - 5
2009 - 1
2010 - 2
2011 - 4
2012 - 1
2013 - 2
2/ Adding in the third party reports (but not voted) from RG and MikeB made in that thread (less two 2011s which actually had been voted for and the 2 with unknown MY) it becomes:
2008 - 6
2009 - 1
2010 - 2
2011 - 6
2012 - 2
2013 - 4
2/ plus fails from the old thread: (excluding obviously those who already had voted in the poll above)
http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=786615
2008 - 12
2009 - 2
2010 - 2
2011 - 9
2012 - 2
2013 - 5
No obvious trends regarding gearbox type, pretty much all located in NA, not many noted a tune and a few were supercharged. Majority were some sort of bearing failure - crank and rod, a couple of valve fails and a good number were simply unknown. I'll total up later.