As a prospective 3.0D owner I would love to see a diesel forum. It woul d be nice to have all of the diesel related posts in one place.

I'm looking at selling my Boxster S and picking up a 54/05/55 plate X5 3.0D. There are a couple of things I'm concerned about:

Blown turbo seals? Saw a video of this on youtube and it looked horrific, I hate to think what fixing it would cost, I'm guessing new turbo/PCV/exhaust as a minimum?

Clunky ZG auto transmission. See to have been a lot of people complaining about the auto gearbox clunking and shunting the car when pulling away after slowing down for a roundabout. Quite a few have had the transmission fail.