Originally Posted by MoonX5

I recently purchased both of my X5's. Both needed timing chains and some general "going over". The Black Sapphire X5 has 161K miles on it, and the Silver Metallic X5 has 126K miles on it. Both vehicles are 4.6is's and are in pristine condition aside from the mechanical issues, which do not scare me at all as this is what I've done for a living for 30 years. I bought the black one first here locally and after investing several hundred dollars in the tools to repair it, I decided to buy another one (the silver one) to make better use of all of these nice, expensive tools.

I finished up the timing chain job on the black one. It runs and drives excellent, except for the token P0741 code from the torque converter starting to go out. Nice... I'll be pulling the converter and sending it off for rebuild while I'm at SEMA next week. I also replaced the driver's front door handle, and while I had the door panel off, I performed some general maintenance on the window regulator (cleaned and lubed guides and tracks).

I replaced the passenger front window regulator on the silver one, and gave it a quick once over as I had literally just pulled it off of the trailer from the journey from Portland, OR the day before. One nice thing about this car is that it came with pretty much every part required for the repairs that it needs. The guy I bought it from was planning on fixing it himself and had purchased nearly everything it needed (including the window regulator), but some health issues caused him to change his mind.