I managed to press out the driveshaft with a 3 jaw puller. The hardest part for me was getting the hub off. Tried all sorts of things like bolting the disc on back to front with loose bolts and using it like a slide hammer. Ended up by using a large wheel puller I have outside the hub area and pulling the hub from the back with threaded rod and a bearing extractor. (Bit hard to describe, but it worked.) Mine was front left wheel bearing. The X is silent again.

The annoying thing was that 3 weeks prior I changed a rear wheel bearing on my E39. The E39 bearing was a piece of cake compared with the front one on the X.

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2004 E53 diesel.
Titan silver on black
Sports package