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Originally Posted by X53Jay4.8is
Coming from a Highlander you are not going to find anything more reliable than that. I love my X5 4.6is and I am a DIYer so that helps but the X5 will demand the greater part of your attention or wallet or both. Since this is your wife's vehicle and you have small kids you are really going to have to give this some deep consideration. Do you plan to keep the Highlander as a backup? If you do then I would say that you can get the X5 so that when it goes down she has something to transition to until its up and going again.
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I think that is the thing that's giving the greatest headache. The Highlander is a damn tank, I change the oil every 5k miles and the thing just goes without issue. The plan would be to ditch the highlander for the X5. Again, it's a very boring car to drive though.
I've been around the block before with the E53 so I'm still kind of leaning that direction. The worst that happened on our old X5 was when the battery died during a snowstorm. I had let it sit outside until the snow melted before replacing the battery. I unlocked the driver's door manually with the key, but when I pulled the handle, it broke. With no way of opening a door, or unlocking the car with the key, I had to hook jumper cables up to the starter motor to give the car some juice to unlock the trunk. In a weird way though, I kind of miss these "experiences".
Another issue I'm seeing is that when I browse around online, most of the X5s I'm seeing are sold by those shady roadside used car dealers. They seem to be hit or miss which is why I'm thinking a PPI is a must.
01-26-2017, 10:48 AM
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