Almost made 200K miles

[Murph]

I don't post a lot although I do browse and read especially the How To's and problem solutions on this forum. I appreciate all those that took the time to document them as I used them many times. However, our 2005 E53 4.4 is finally ready to move on from us. I still have the original sticker at almost $67K but alas it's now only worth maybe $1,000 on trade in. We bought it CPO and have made it to now 196,600 miles. However it needs brakes, drivers airbag and tires. Also it's burning a bit of oil like a quart every 500 miles. After sitting at idle for a few minutes we leave in a cloud of blue. It's just not worth spending 3-4X the value of the vehicle to fix.

My wife is looking around at what's available now as the landscape has changed dramatically. Maybe we'll get another X5 CPO. There's just something very special about these wonderful vehicles.

Thanks again to this great forum for all the wisdom. - Murph