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Originally Posted by paqs
If you dig around I think you'll find your 5-10k estimate is orders of magnitude out, the estimated combined production numbers for the X5M and X6M for MY2010 was circa 150 for North America although I heard it reached nearly 200, probably similar for the whole of europe. I was told only 15 MY2010 cars were registered in the UK this year. BMW only sold 1146 M cars accross the whole BMW range in Jan 2010, the X5 M is rare.
Its not about putting people off, I'm not shouting don't buy an X5 M but I am saying there are too many engine issues for the amount of units produced, there is either something wrong with quality control or the design is inherently faulty, I don't know which it is but either way its not good on a vehicle of this value.
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Like I said it's a guess, But 150 for the US, has to be exponentially more than that. I had the first 2010 in the state of Washington and now I know there to be probably close to 20. Thats one state with only 4 dealers. Imagine how many must be in California alone. I just guessed knowing they make what 200K X5's wordwide per year. So 5 to 10K of those being M's didn't sound too farfetched. Anyways I agree with you it sucks that there are problems but I have to believe it is not the entire lot of them.