Thanks. I feel the same way, and I always like a challenge.

I could have gone either way on this repair, but knowing I already had two spare Mabuchi motors in hand made me decide to give this a shot. It was still uncertain until the very end though, since I had found no reports of this on the E53, and mostly failure reports on other BMWs.

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2001 X5 3.0i, 203k miles, AT, owned since 2014