As I've mentioned many times before I have not experienced problems that I would dare say challenge quality, reliability or cost of owning a X5. I have owned my X5 since new. From day one I have added many mods that increased stress on the engine and transmission. As recently as two years ago I added nitrous. I have over 110,000 miles on the vehicle.

If we were talking about vehicles 2-3 years old with 35-50,000 miles I could agree that many of the problems I read here are issues of lack of quality and reliability. Our x5s are at least 7 years old. Mine is 12 years old. Even more unrealistic is if one has fairly recently purchased an E53 with 70,000+ miles with no history to expect that X5 will be a great buy.

Since day one of owning cars, I have always added about 20,000 miles and/or 1 year to the warranty and then sold it. The reason being that it was close to a sure thing that beyond that I would be entering the s#$t happens and rebuilding phase. The X5 is the only daily driver exception.

I am not able to make any sense of complaints of quality or reliability on E53s. Especially if one still owns one. That either means there are other redeeming qualities that more than offset repair costs, the cost of ownership is within an acceptable range or the trees are hiding the forest. I see no justification for b#$h sessions, especially, if one is still doing upgrades, modifications or driving it like they stole it. Though, I can see where I might be one of them if I had anger issues and venting here helped me feel better about myself.

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X5 4.6 2002 Black Sap, Black interior. 2013 X5M Melbourne Red, Bamboo interior
Dallas