I see your frustration with your own experience. I’m not disagreeing with you that E53 X5 isn’t the most reliable car. My E34 has close to
quarter of a million miles now and she still runs like she did when she was at 50k miles and has been very reliable (she is almost 20 years old => recent picture below) but I have taken good care of her. My X5 still has very low miles at 57k and haven’t had any problems yet other than alternator bracket gasket. I have also taken good care of her. Every marques have their issues. My friend’s Cayenne Turbo has plastic coolant pipe issues, oil leaks, and random electrical issues. My neighbor’s ML550 had steering pump failure, null electronic transmission issues, and ignition failure and it is only few years old! My friend’s Jeep Grand Cherokee had cam bearing failure. And the list goes on...
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Originally Posted by trader4
So performance and luxury means the CV boots should rip at 50K, while Honda last 3X+ on a car that costs half as much? That the window regulators should break, with the windows crashing down, breaking into bits? I've gone through 3 window regulators on this X5. In 4 decades of owning various cars, I've had exactly one other window regulator fail. And that was in a MB when I took it to the car wash when it was 20F out and later tried to open a window to pay a toll. It was frozen and it broke. The X5? It's windows fall down sitting in the driveway. How about the infamous FSR blower resistor? They've been failing for a decade. Or the aux cooling fans, with the miracle PWM design, that fail one after the other, and cost $450. That's luxury/performance? And then you have folks here telling the guy that he should expect to have to replace all the gaskets and seals at 100K, because they are known to leak? Good grief, that's not how cars are supposed to be built.
None of that has anything to do with luxury, performance, or 15K oil changes. It's bad design, crappy parts. I'm not saying they do everything wrong, but they sure have enough things very wrong with these cars and I'm going to tell the truth, not make excuses.
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