not even 4 months in and I already have 3 issues:

1. Sunroof when put into vent position, does not always want to close and if it gets stuck I have to shut down the car and let it rest for 15 mins and then it may close.

2. this morning I started the car up and the damn idrive screen was completely dead. I tried restarting and only after I let it sit for 15 mins before the 4th restart did it come back on.

3. one fog light on occasion is lit when I start the car. if i flick the fog light switch on and off, it turns off.

these all sound like computer related problems.

so far I have had a really poor experience on what is now my third bimmer in a row. if this continues, they will lose a bimmerfan to some other make.

I leased the car from BMW of Bloomfield (NJ) and I must have had the worst experience ever (I highly recommend that you do not get a car from them)

I had made a deal with them which included eating my two last payments of my outgoing X5 as bmw had $2500 back in Feb. Since my lease was only $500 per month, I figured I would net win $1500. They ended up paying only one of the payments and then acted like they never agreed to this. I escalated to multiple management levels and nothing. I am slightly at fault since I didn't specify it in the contract. Either way, I had an agreement with the sales person. Then the GM told me that he tends to forget things since he had some illness. No offence, but why is no on checking the deals he makes if he has an illness as a backup.

I took the car which was before the issue above with the last payment (i had received the bill from bmw fs). Once I took the car, I drove onto the highway and the left turn signal light was giving me errors. In the end, the car was missing the light assembly for the rear left signal. I had to drive from Brooklyn all the way out to them to et it fixed. All they said was oops, we must have used the original for a part on another car. Guess what else was missing...the ipod cable. Great...another thing that they used for another car. i sometimes wonder what else they took that I will eventually find ot the hard way.

All in all, this is one of the worst experiences I have ever had. BMW of Bloomfield is a mis-managed dealership with incompetent sales people. I had much better experiences at Life Quality in Brooklyn, the problem was that they could not get me a car during the window for the $2500 back.