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Originally Posted by X5only
Wow, amazing and congrats yet again  What a voyage! You've given that X5 a new lease of life and it's just as good as new! I crown you the X5 guru  Now, do you think the trans issue was a result of lack of oil change and thus excessive dirt? BMW recommends trans oil and filter change every 100k miles, I think. |
Thanks!! Oddly, I am not sure I deserve that honor just yet... I think I jumped the gun on the fix... I'm not sure what the issue is, but the colder it is outside, the better... It's not fixed yet...
So, to recap... Last night I put about 8.5 liters of new LG6 in the trans... Got it up to temp running up and down the road in my area... Nice and warm with no issues... Excited about taking it to work today...
On the way in at 0545 hrs this morning, I got about half way to work (on the interstate) and got the trans fail safe again... It must have stayed in 5th gear for the rest of the trip to work... Which was a question I had about the fail safe program... Would it drop to 3rd regardless OR use the trans speed to figure out the best gear to use at the time of failure... It was the latter...
So, on the way home at 1430, failsafe hit almost before I got out of the parking lot... It didn't leave third gear the whole way home... It did take a while on the back roads...
So, now I have to reevaluate things... Where to start?! The other bad news is that I have the exhaust cam over advance issue again...
Time to hook up the computer...
Cheers for now!!