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Originally Posted by theblue
I have a friend with a civic with 180k and it's had brake pads, tires, and oil.
so I'm sure you can see how such an owner would look at an X5 like your one and think that's extreme.
Big heavy luxury automobiles will always be high maintenance. I still love the X5, but for the person who's going to the repair shop for everything it's going to be a nightmare.
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I had a new, unmodded Civic CRX in the mid-80s that would pop main fuses and leave me strranded in the winter (over a dozen times), usually at the Whitestone Bridge toll on my way to work in College Pt, Queens. My GFs '05 Accord (purchased new) with 65k miles has already needed 3 sets of tires, rear wheel bearings, 3 batteries, belts, 2 sets of brakes and alternator (NIGHTMARE!!! Went to Honda for the part, got one that had a bad internal regulator that would cut off output when up to summer underhood temp. Honda would check the part cool and tell me it operates fine, causing me to do the job 3 times and troubleshooting the entire system for days!!!!!! Finally wore down the parts manager and got it swapped, problem solved!) Bad OE parts in a sealed box from a dealer is total BS in my book. Needs R134a topped off each summer too.
NONE of my BMWs (four to date, with around 3/4 of a million miles) have EVER left me stranded!!! Just the 2 Hondas above have had me roadside over 15 times.
There's also the fact that Jap cars are made with machined parts and sheet metal stampings that are not deburred (razor sharp edges) and plastic molded parts with sharp edges and mold flashings. BMW deburrs machined parts and molds radiuses on all plastic parts, also molds that flash are removed from production and repaired. My hands and arms look like I was attacked by a pack of wild ferrets after DIYing on Jap crap!
The CRX even left me stranded 2 miles from the Honda dealer because they "forgot" to fill the tank with fuel after charging me on the purchase aggreement. You can keep their sales/service experience too, it SUCKS!