leveling system problem?

[Ambrosius]

This morning I was looking at my X5 from the rear before I pulled out of the garage. The car seemed to be leaning towards the front passenger side. I thought I had a flat. Looks at the tires and they looked fine. I then pressed the unlock key on my remote, 5 seconds later I heard the car raising up and the level of the card seemed better. I measured the tire to the top of the wheel base and it seems that the passenger wheel base is about 1/4" higher than the driver side.

The car is out warranty so I am afraid that they might want to charge me a bundle to get it fixed.

Should I be concerned?

Ambro

[zerochief]

If you have "selflevel susp inact" on the display then you can worry

[Ambrosius]

Nope... Nothing on the display. Everything else seems to be running fine. I even manually raised and lowered the supension without any problems.

[FLX5Nut]

If it's only one side, I would bet it is one of the suspension airbags that has developed a leak. I had a leaky valve in one of the rear bags in my 01 X5, and the whole rear of the car would drop overnight. Hit the key in the am, and on would go the pump, and it would come back up. Ultimatley, it was about $500 to get the airbag replaced, and not covered under the wonderfully usueless warranty extension from Mercury Insurance. I had no display messages on my dash for this issue either, but I did get the occasional Self-Level message. One out of 5 times it was the fuse.

[littlefrog]

Probably a tiny leakage at the air spring. I had that before
cost me US$500 to replace it.
If the leakage is large, you will get a "self lvl susp inactive" message.