My X must be telling me that it needs a rest or something. This morning I had to bring it to the dealer for the 3 following problems:

1) Burning smell and smoke from underneath the engine. I have been having this for a couple of weeks. Could not get this fixed sooner as I very busy at work which is good cause 2 other problems occurred since then.
2) Driver side window regulator gone (again!). Happened Friday last week
3) 'Groaning' noise when steering. New problem, just appeared today while driving to the dealer.

Here is my prognostic for problems 1 and 3. Will see if I am right.
Problem 1: Since the valve cover gaskets have already been replaced this year I am going to bet that the problem comes now from the oil separator line.
Problem 3: This happened for the first time while driving to the dealer this morning so I did not have time to check if the steering fluid level was low. I am going to bet that it is the steering pump which needs to be replaced. Another possibility could be that the fluid level is low but then that would mean that I have a leak somewhere as the level was ok a month ago.