With the castor set for LHD and not adjustable for RHD (that being the LH front wheel is set back 5mm than the RH wheel) great for Europe & USA. When you have the X5 in RHD the vehicle tends to steer left on our heavy camber roads.

With active steer more pressure is required to keep the X5 from veering left. Not so noticeable with normal power steering as it is lighter to the touch but it becomes a pain after 2 hours of driving, that extra pressure starts to hurt your wrist.

The wider the wheels also the more pressure is required, it is fine around town but on counrty roads it is a pain.

So much so BMW flew 3 sets of control arms out from Germany but could not solve the problem. All they needed to do was engineer some new bushes so it would bring the LH wheel forward and the RH wheel back - simply castor asjustment to suit RHD cars, Mercedes do it.

Anyway handed the X5 back told them to build me a X5 that was suited to RHD, the new X5 arrives late Feb 08.

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X5 M50d White | 20" Rims | Adaptive Drive, Self-Lvl Susp | Act/Steer | HUD | Xenon, Adapt Lights | H-Beam Ast | Rear/Side Camera | Panorama S/roof | Auto Tailgate | Comfort, Active, Ventilated, Heating, Lumbar, Navada Perforated Leather Seats | Comfort Access | M-Steer Wheel w Pdle Shift |Sports 8-Speed | Active Crus Stop/Go | Proff Nav + TV, DAB | 16 Spk Ind Audio | USB |Internet-eMail-SMS-Apps | 4 Zone Air | Speed D/play | Towbar | 20% Tint | 5mm Castor Bushes | Yellow Calipers, Ceramic Pads |