Transmission flush
 

Well been 4 months since the flush & it's smooth as silk, I have a friend with a Ford Ft6 Typhoon SAME gearbox & he could not believe how smooth the gear changes were, in Normal Sport or Manual modes.

Since then had from & rear camber/caster kits fitted & aligned New front castor bushes new front & Rear brake rotors & pads plus a set of NITTO INVO rear tyres, very nice

wow that sounds amazing! i just had my trasnmission rebuilt...and while its functioning amazing...the shifts are not smooth as silk.I feel a little bit jibbed for $3500 for a complete rebuild.
tell me this Shaun, when you are stopped at lights and in drive...do you have any vibrations from the driveline? i have a small amound with the AC off, but the car shakes alot with the AC on.

when I changed mine last time, after searching alot all over the web, I ended up by using ZF lifeguard 5 fluid which is made exactly by the same transmission manufacture in germany. So I don't see anything wrong doing using this fluid which is rated as: LT 71141 NOTE: Only for "Green Tag" . And my car is a:2001 X5 4.4i E53. Also whatever where I search for ATF fluid for my car, this fluid always stated as: OEM and always much expensive.($22.99/liter)

I bought a case of 6 quarts and it took nearly all 6 bottles because I had a leak
somewhere by the front torque converter. I will post a few pics soon how the job went down. So far so good, transmission shift smoothly just as it was.
I don't use shifting anyway, I simply put my car in Letter "D" and take off.

I strongly believe that a lot of people do not know how to properly use the
shifting method, meaning they dont know that "Each gear:1-2-3-4-5 should be corresponded to certain speed exactly. If not, you're using the risk of crashing your transmission by putting too much compression inside.
Let's say that you're going 50 mil/hour and your selector is still on 2 gear.
Or going over 55mil/hour but suddenly decide to put the gear on 2 or 3, when your gear supposed to be around 4 through 5 @ this speed.

This is where most transmission crashed/failed but blaming on fluid change later, after all they have already caused. (It's like thinking to put a new lock on the gate to secure the house after it has already been vandalized inside)

Transmission
 

My X5 is like a new car, no vibration it's perfect. You forget about all the annoying problems & just drive when everything works as it was designed to.
Love it

wow, good to hear. guess i will have to get mine looked at again.
there guys did the build: Automatic Transmission Serivce & Repairs to Bmw - Saab - Volvo - Range Rover Transmissions and Valve Body - We offer and Sell Transmission Parts
clearly not very good....
Where did you get your camber and castor kits from?

Camber & Caster kits. Front & Rear
 

I got my camber/caster kits from Kmac Rockdale
I would definitely get them to instal as the rear are a huge job. Anyone else will mess it up and take days they are so familiar with the kits they can do it in half a day. The front are straight forward the rear are a big install