Thank you all for responding.... It amazes me that a BMW could continue to have so many problems, I have only had this X5 for 3 months... its already been in the shop half a dozen times for various things. I realize its a 2001, however, it only had 48K miles, I thought German cars really didn't break in till 50k - 60K miles... perhaps the statement should be that German cars tend to brake at 50K-60K.

Thanks for the link, I read the comments about the 3.0 that seemed to have the same issues.. hopefully its not my transmission.... I am sure that is a fortune to fix