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Originally Posted by dudeparechong
I drive a 2008 4.8i and I had the same problem.
So I guess there really is a problem with the parking brake of the 2008 X5. The towing company told me that my X was the 5th that he towed because of a parking brake malfunction. But when I spoke to the Service Advisor, he said that it was the first time that he encountered such problem and he doesn't know what causes it.
What sucks the most is, I just got my car last December. Pretty premature to have this problem of sorts. I love the X5 to bits, but I must say that a chunk of my confidence in this vehicle is gone.
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I think it would be worth setting the park brake as a test, and then using the special tool under the rear floor to release it, solely as practice and for familiarization in case it ever happens to fail. BMW must have had a concern about the release actuator if they spent the money to provide a manual release tool.
Not to scare you, but I believe that next to the manual release tool for the parking brake is a manual crank to close the sunroof if it won't close due to an actuator failure. Might be worth checking how it works too.
When regular posters talk about their concerns over early production models and nuisance faults, this is the type of thing we think about.
Good luck.
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