Just picked up my x5 from the tranny rebuild today - i cant believe it failed after only 150k klm.

My wife uses as daily driver 4.4 2001 black with cream leather trim - beautifull car, ive put 20inch 4.6 is rims on it looks great

the misses went to get some groceries and the car was on a slight incline wouldnt engage in reverse towed it back drove to mechanics and short story is torque converter failed so basically had the whole trans rebuilt no gears but all new clutches new torquey and seals etc - fortunatley the internal gears were in good nick otherwise would have required a full rebuild would hve been another $3k !

My trans specialist said hes done about 6 of them in these things now i dont know but this 150 k and rebuild the trans is kinda bad i love the car but when you are buying a quality european car you should not have these issues and if you do the company should definatley offer some sort of compensation.

Unfortunatley doesnt reflect well on company really.

aside from this I love the car.