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Originally Posted by Entropy
The mechanical build quality on BMWs is pretty sad. I will probably look outside of BMW once I am done with my E70. I'm sure reliability is one reason BMW was passed up by MB in 2016.
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I feel ya.. I've had an E36, E46 and now my E70.. my 3 series were both great and I drove the piss out of them up to nearly 200k miles with only typical repairs for any vehicle with that kind of mileage. My X is a bit "special". I must say however that all of the woes I have experienced thus far have been with the motor. I've had a couple other issues with it that were "self-inflicted" (me being careless). And a few strange occurrences that only happened once and seemed to have fixed themselves. My door tweeter speaker BLARED static one day while the car was just sitting turned off in my garage. A couple minutes later it just randomly stopped and hasn't happened since. These cars seem to have their own personalities. I LOVE my X but sometimes feel like I'm driving a fancy, expensive, pretty, piece of shit with a luxurious interior and aesthetically pleasing exterior. And some of the engineering designs leave me scratching my head...
I've owned it less than a year though so we will see how things turn out in the long run...