Originally Posted by tomgtv

I bought this BMW X5 3.0 in December of 1999. The 3.0's had
only been out a few months. It has sport pkg. It has had $$$
of repairs, mainly to running gear to keep it rolling.
I've never had a car this long. I'm thinking of keeping it as an
experiment. It burns no oil (when the oil separator hose is
connected.....mine rotted off and dumped oil for a month before
I figured it out), seems to perform as when new in basic operation.
Body stuff were very problematical. At window regulator #5 I decided
to take engineering in my own hands and through bolted the
clips to the glass.......no more issues and no more $200 parts.

My indy mechanic is forecasting 400,000 miles. I've never changed
the transmission fluid as per BMW lifetime recommendation. We'll
see!

I also only run regular gas and use Mobil1 Syn 15w50 in last couple
years. I mainly used 10w40 Mobil 1. Went to 15w50 cause that's what
I put in my Jetski. Change oil about 12K to 15K. (Note this is an edit
from first post, it was typo on my part)

Oh guys, notice my black electrical tape fix for the check engine light?
It's been on for 6 years......nobody ever could figure out why it was
on.......yeah I did the gas gap, prayed over it, etc..........

The pix were taken while hauling my 260hp supercharged Kawasaki
Ultra 250X jetski to the Hydrodrag races in Sebastian, FL.