Well you're all right and wrong. Apparently the car told them I had opened the door too many times without starting the car this weekend!!!! So hmmm...Saturday I washed it, I guess opening the doors to vacuum the interior out was too much for it (I hope Phil has a charger in his place when he details these!).

Now, my keys stay far away (can't handle the car locking and unlocking a hundred times while i wash it (comfort access), and it's locked everywhere and every night (otherwise this would be someone posting about the POS car he stole having a dead battery!!!) cause I've read about this great event too many times on here not to keep it locked up.

They put it on a charger and flushed my brake fluid (2 years old now)....all is fine, no idiot charges for me this round, just a warning.

I agree with deutsch, I did not spend $75k to have to put my car on a charger every night, or at all. This car gets driven everyday and in the past two weeks has done more than it's share of long hauls (more than 100 miles each day at mixed speeds of highway and city).

My A8 had as much electro-wizardry as this truck, my Range Rover had almost as much, my Porsche sat for months at a time (I could never drive it in the rain, the undercarriage might have gotten dirty!!), and they NEVER let me down for battery issues.

I love my X5 and plan on putting my order in for an X5M in a few months. I have probably seen the High Battery discharge warning twice in the life of the vehicle (and not for at least six months) so we'll chalk this up to hopefully just one bad time.

While i realize the vehicle has SOOOOOO much electronic stuff in it, on average most people drive 12k-15k per year, so that's 32 to 41 miles per day (and according to BMW probably not enough for this truck) and to have a vehicle that requires you to have to put it on a battery tender is absurd. Fine, if it was a 66' GTO that never goes anywhere OK, or 599 that I will only drive on the sunniest of days, I guess, but my daily driver..no way....

rant over, fingers crossed...just too many people on this board with the same troubles not to think it's an inherent design issue.

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