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Old 10-10-2019, 12:30 PM
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Don't understand the emergency brake comment. Are you saying you can pump the brakes to control understeer?

I thought that could be the case until I had trifecta in a snow storm. In a way you are correct I think: once converted to RWD, you could drive X5 without DSC but in a slippery environment, with three open dif, the X5 is nothing but dangerous, you can't guess when you'll get engine braking and it will put you in random uncontrollable spins. With Rwd, you can at least let off the gas and still steer.

You said you have trifecta but everything works. That is contradictory. Usually when trifecta won't go away and all the parts are in apparent good shape the problem is the abs module.

$200 or so to send that in to have the wiring leads re welded. It's a pretty well known issue with the Bosch abs brains of the early 00s.
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