OK I did transmission fluid flush on my 02 4.4i

[JCL]

Originally Posted by oldskewel

I did the change on my 2001 x5 3.0 a week or so and 100 miles ago. Nothing has blown up yet! Some comments:......

Very complete and thorough post. I don't think that 100 miles is enough to guarantee no further potential issues, but I wouldn't spend any effort worrying about it. You did it very carefully, used the right fluid, and so on. Just drive it and enjoy it.

[Whitecat]

Originally Posted by JCL

Very complete and thorough post. I don't think that 100 miles is enough to guarantee no further potential issues, but I wouldn't spend any effort worrying about it. You did it very carefully, used the right fluid, and so on. Just drive it and enjoy it.

[Blowout]

Serviced the tranny a month ago in our 2003 X5 using this information and all went well. Thanks OP for starting this thread.

The tranny pan was so dirty I couldn't see the manufacturing sticker on the pan and ordered ATF from fleabay. Thankfully I cleaned the pan before draining and found the sticker and determined the ATF used was a Dexron 4 and not what the Bentley manual and other information indicated...including the compatibility tool the vendor had on fleabay. Now I have $91 worth of the wrong ATF sitting in my garage. Better there than in the X5.

Used Amsoil ATF1G red label to be compatible with BMW PN 83 220 024 359