Help Head gasket blown

[GT475]

Good day all,

Mine is about to go to hell

Just got a call from the dealership who's having our 2000 X5 for oil in prestone.

Original taught was that the oil separator was the culpit but it looks like the head gasket has blown. Curiously no white smoke ever came out of the car just a lost of cabin heat which resulted from low prestone (no warning light what so ever (and the dashboard light works).

I had top it off for 2-3 weeks. The engine temp gage never went off the middle. I don't understand with all the engineering in this howcome we never got a warning sign.

Anyhow, they are going to spend the required 3 hours to pull the top off and see if there is more damage.

The service man (which we have been dealing with for several years now) is warning me that there might be a possiblity that they could not be able to remove the head bolts without stripping them. In which case, he is saying that we might have to get a new block

How can that be?

Cant they just fix the damage thread in these blocks, if any?

He said a new block is in the 10G+. The car is just worth about 19kCDN.

Anybody with taughts, comments, past experience with this is appreciated.

I am totally devastated with this car now.
We had put in some big $ last fall to fix some minor rust and other regular maintenance stuff, new set of winter tires, etc.

Were thinking of selling it this spring and order a 335xi for next winter.

Don't know what to think anymore.

Marc