Transmission Reliability

[willgabriel]

Originally Posted by cheappc

Lets get serious guys, the transmissions are bad, lets be real here, I have my indi mechanic that has been servicing all of my BMW's for years and he told me "before" I bought my X that the transmissions fail... to make sure I really want to buy the "X"..

Also, another customer of mine who owns a car lot, told me the same thing, these are 2 people who dont know each other.

Now think about it, these people that their transmissions are going bad are not even on this board! so we may have a big problem here, just that not enough people are on boards like these to report them all....

my .02

EXACTLY. Again, anyone who insists there is not an issue that calls for BMW to provide a better remedy may need to reveal what his/her financial and/or emotional ties to BMW are. BMW has an issue on its hands with these X5 transmissions, and I find it appalling that they are placing a cost/benefit ethos above quality customer care when it is BMW that insisted the auto transmissions in the 2000-2008 were "maintenance-free" ... Transmissions on X5's seem to have failed before 150k miles due in part to BMW's insistence that the transmission fluid is a "lifetime" fluid. "Lifetime" may be legal jargon in some sense, BUT a REASONABLE PERSON would say the lifetime of a transmission in a $60k SAV should absolutely be greater than 150k miles.