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Originally Posted by cheappc
Lets get serious guys, the transmissions are bad, lets be real here, I have my indi mechanic that has been servicing all of my BMW's for years and he told me "before" I bought my X that the transmissions fail... to make sure I really want to buy the "X"..
Also, another customer of mine who owns a car lot, told me the same thing, these are 2 people who dont know each other.
Now think about it, these people that their transmissions are going bad are not even on this board! so we may have a big problem here, just that not enough people are on boards like these to report them all....
my .02
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EXACTLY. Again, anyone who insists there is not an issue that calls for BMW to provide a better remedy may need to reveal what his/her financial and/or emotional ties to BMW are. BMW has an issue on its hands with these X5 transmissions, and I find it appalling that they are placing a cost/benefit ethos above quality customer care when it is BMW that insisted the auto transmissions in the 2000-2008 were "maintenance-free" ... Transmissions on X5's seem to have failed before 150k miles due in part to BMW's insistence that the transmission fluid is a "lifetime" fluid. "Lifetime" may be legal jargon in some sense, BUT a REASONABLE PERSON would say the lifetime of a transmission in a $60k SAV should absolutely be greater than 150k miles.