Need some advice, keep it or part it out

[nebilex]

Hey OP sorry to hear about your X5. I can only imagine the headache you have to deal with right now. Regarding BMW's being money pit, I think Srmmmm and others have said it. How well the car was maintained in the past makes a huge difference. So if you look at Srmmm example of $4200 over the life of the car vs Tiag's $4500 over the 100k miles vs mine which is about $6500 over 100k miles. Now i try to do most of my maintenance but I've been caught off guard where the x5 broke down (Powersteering pump ($800) and Alternator and other stuff ($900). But this also includes Tires, rotors, pads, CCV, Electric fan, cooling system overhaul, axles to name a few. Rookie mistake i made was buying the car without any maintenance record, it was 1 owner and had 95k miles on it. So as someone said it earlier, i typical put aside $1-1.5k/ year. There has been years i spent it and other times i didn't have to do anything more than an oil change.