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Originally Posted by rogerkiu
5K-6K USD per year for maintenance? That's abit exaggerated, I think. I think maybe average 1K-2k per year is reasonable if you keep your car in a good manner. Just don't do anything that is not recommended by the factory, like changing transmission oil/differential oil unnecessarily, which leads to transmission failure most of time. Keep doing maintenance following the indicator, and keep your eyes on the vehicle all the time, have your x checked when you feel something wrong and have it fixed as soon as possible. Then you should be fine. Facelifted E53 is much more reliable than pre-facelifted E53, don't worry too much. Remember, if you treat your car well, your car treats you well as well.
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I have to open a can of worms here. Through my experience and research I have to respectfully disagree with you on following strictly factory maintenance or 'non-maintenance' and that face lifted e53s or more reliable? Factory maintenance says don't maintain anything until it breaks and push oil changes to the limits. Sure the tranny fluid change is iffy but diffs really? And how are sunroofs, air suspension etc and the N62 and ZF 6 speed more reliable than pre face lift trannies and engines?? Please elaborate cause I am dumb founded at some of these statements.