As others have posted, early E53s are getting on in years. Some, like ours, have been repair prone. Extended warranties are getting much more expensive, when you can get them. But having said that, we were still planning to keep our 2001 E53 as long as we could. The ONLY reason we moved from our 2001 E53 to a 2009 E70 this year, was because our E53 was totaled by being hit from the rear. The diesel simply made the forced transition a bit easier

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