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Originally Posted by Russianblue
I just spent well over an hour reading this entire thread and am absolutely riveted. This is like reading a novel!! I feel AWFUL for the main character. Somehow this car has to get back on the road!
I know that getting one of the existing trannies to work properly has been a personal challenge, but I am curious whether this problem is actually solvable. Would, for example, a factory rebuilt Valve body or full transmission solve this problem once and for all?
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Good day!!
Indeed!! The X5 is very nice and it is a shame I need to move on to other projects... All is not lost tho! The motor I rebuilt is going into another 2004-2006 when one needing motor work turns up... I have three transmissions for these year, although one isn't complete... And a couple transfer cases.... All the body panels are perfect... Interior has already been swapped into Becky...
I tried everything I suspected to be the cause... I think I had a bad DME and the reprogram didn't take or made things worse... I got another DME for it, but those are too difficult to blank out for initial programming again and I didn't feel like pulling the EWS, keys, locks, ignition, and DME from a parts X5 to see if that would fix it... It is technically still complete... It has Becky's interior in it... I haven't TOTALLY given up on it yet, but it is very very much on the back burner until lots of things on my to-do list clear up...
Cheers!!!!