My wife and I love ours. Its 10 years old and seems to be in great shape so far. Of course we dont have some of the fancier stuff that the 4.4's have like the self leveling suspension and what not.

I would highly recommend taking it in to the dealer to have any recall items fixed before trying to fix anything or even think that something is overtly wrong outside the items that are under recall. The more I learn about my X5, the more I am finding out how much is electronically controlled. If you have a bad ECU then that may be the source of your issues right there.

Parked 70% of its life and only driven 20%, maybe its a typo, but what about the other 10% of its life. Parked 70% of its life sounds a bit extreme in my mind. My jeep has been parked for months on end but that was because it was wrecked and I beat the heck out of my Jeep.

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2002 X5 3.0i