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Originally Posted by gasayers
Morning all,
Just bought our first beamer.
Now very worried.
It’s a fantastic car to drive, couple of pixels out but otherwise perfect condition for age.
2002 3l petrol auto 260000km
Been reading the forums and seems most people consider it something of an achievement to get a weeks driving without doing repairs.
Don’t get me wrong. I expect big service bills and know any problems will be expensive. I just had assumed that it was “IF” something goes wrong not “when and how often”
Now my wife, (not me) has wanted an X5 for years and this one came up at a good price; we’ve both been driving Toyota’s for 15 years and literally done 100000’s of kms with no repairs. I don’t even consider wether my surf will break down at 250000kms.
unfortunatley if my wife breaks down on the motorway it's a bit of a given that she'll freak out.
Point is - Can I expect her to drive this to work reliably (if serviced) every day with our daughter in it.
we drive very sedately and will do the occasional 300k trip to the beach. This is a second vehicle.
Does anyone just drive and enjoy these cars as they get older?
A little assurance at this stage would go a long way.
I also recognise that 90% of people on the net are looking for answers so hopefully there are a huge percentage of people driving these cars trouble free and not posting.
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I have not owned any BMW with that number of kms on it (
161K miles) but from my experience BMW's do not have the Toyota level of reliability. They're not bad but they're not Toyota's either.
With that said I have owned a number of older BMW's and have not had many problems with them. Here is a list of issues I've had with my two X5's:
2000 4.4i:
- Transmission valve body replacement
- MAF sensor
2001 4.4i
- Oil Separator Hoses
- CV Joint Boots (had the entire axle assembly replaced as it was slightly more to do the entire axle instead of just the boot)
These are the only major repairs I had to do. The 2000's repairs were after owning the vehicle for a few months. The 2001's were known before I purchased the vehicle (and the dealer adjusted the price accordingly). I have done some maintenance to include bushings on both vehicles, fluid flushes (transmission, brake, coolant, etc).
For the most part they've been troublefree. I've owned the 2001 since February of this year and once I completed the initial work I've just gotten in it and driven it. I have no reason to believe it will leave me stranded any more than any other vehicle I've owned. The 2000 had 80K miles and the 2001 had 108K miles. The 2001 now has 115K, I can't recall how many the 2000 had when I traded it in.