2011 X5D 59,700 miles.
Front diff easy. Old fluid a little amber brown like maple syrup. The plug had a thin layer of gray paste coating, not too bad.


Rear diff, Fluid looked almost as good as new, clear light yellow color.


T/C, fluid looked very clean almost like new.


Transmission, Fluid was light brownish, no burnt smell, magnets did have gray coating of metal paste, to be expected.



Coolant, drained 5quarts and replaced 5.
Power steering, vacuumed out and replaced 1 L cfh 11s
Fuel filter. Easy, I used a small set of vice grips to pinch fuel line and didn't purge system, I just turned car on and off a few times and then I cranked maybe 5-6 seconds and fired right up.

Brake Fluid, vacuumed reservoir and bled brakes,1 L of DOT4 lv.

Almost everything from FCP euro.
Pro's- after watching and reading, I thought draining the coolant was going to be a big deal. I saw people having to take off fan and what not. I removed splash shield under front and lo and behold there was a 1" coolant line running parallel under radiator. I removed spring clip and let drain overnight.
Con's: fricking T/C crossmember was in the way and couldn't get to the four bolts on front of Trans. Removing crossmember wasn't too bad but it took me 3 hours to put it back. I could have used another set of hands.Kinda hard, laying on your back trying to get some leverage. Oh BTW the german bottles have a bigger size than a standard qt bottle. I knocked over bottle more than once trying to pump the fluid in (good thing it came with 7 bottles I used all of them to refill). And about 20lbs of cat litter and 2 rolls of shop towels.LOL On hindsight, I should have bought the mityvac or something similar for trans fluid. I think I have carpal tunnel now from pumping 5000 times on the cheap $9 shampoo pump I used. I did rig up a 3/8" copper tubing to the pump tubing to drain rear diff and fill trans.
I do have a question though on the fuel filter. Why run fuel through heater then filter then do a 180 to rear for 2' the 180 back to engine, instead of just straight from filter to the front to engine??

Big Thanks to everyone on here, who made write ups and videos.