The X5 I currently drive has been in my family since new, back in 12/02. It has gone from my mother's car, to me, to my father, to the spare car. I'm using it in college this year since my 318 is broken. It's been a trooper so far, but I know I'm never going to bring a nice car to college ever again.
A small list of things that need work:
- Coolant flush
- Brake fluid flush
- Caliper rebuild
- alignment
- subframe bushings
- rear suspension arms/ball joints
- shocks and struts
- front ball joints/bushings
The freezing weather also hasn't been kind to it. I've had a door latch jam in the unlatched position, so I couldn't shut the doors. The windows have also been frozen up a few times now. Add that to me still wanting to fix up and make my retrofitted headlights better, there is quite a laundry list of things to do on it.
I've actually been searching up used car prices if something catastrophic happens to the X5 while in college. Just been looking for a good appliance car for cheap on the STL Craigslist just in case it's the end of the road for the X5 here. I need a way to make it back to NJ somehow...