Cross country? Yeah, I thought that too at 120K when I drove to Dallas for Christmas...halfway back to Kansas the little hose between the radiator and the reservoir sprung a leak and drained all the fluid in about a minute. Tow truck driver wouldn't give me a ride to the gas station 30 miles away so I could buy a pocket knife to cut off the split end and re-attach, so paid to have it towed. My 11 year old son had to wait in the freezing back seat while I did the repair in a 30mph blizzard.

Even if by some miracle someone repairs this car as it sits right now, I wouldn't trust it to go 10 more miles without something else failing.

If I hadn't spend every dime of my disposable income on parts and tools in the past year, I would have bought an older Honda Accord in a heartbeat to have as my reliable daily driver, and kept the X5 as a project car.