Bought an 2006 X5 4.8is last week...

[PropellerHead]

Originally Posted by lhordmclain

Please read
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Ok I did. Bit it didn't clear any confusion.

Originally Posted by StephenVA

Welcome to the family. Don't listen to all the nay sayers with their little six bangers that turn into oil pumpers after a few winter days. They are still trying to figure out all the issues even though those "little bitty" engines have been around for 20+ years. Envy

Well, see now I'm just REALLY confused. Someone ELSE wrote that post. But you said:

Originally Posted by lhordmclain

This is a one on one with prop..

and then you immediately mention someone else's post?

Originally Posted by lhordmclain

Please read again the previous post they are in one who said 6cyc bangers, little or punny....

So which is it? Is the problem with V8 owners who think the i6 puny? Well, take that problem to someone else. I don't help people who want to piss for distance off the bar. Not my game.

If anything, as an owner of a 3.0 for 7 years, I championed the i6. I still miss it when my next door neighbor who bought it drives it down the street. All of that time spent polishing the paint, treating it right, and getting the maintenance done when it should still shows. I've even written about how the i6 has some things better in my experience than the (allmighty) 4.8is here.

See? It is possible to understand and appreciate more than one perspective. In fact, you can even hold more than one perspective as your very own. Thinking (and going so far as to suggest) that every N62 will have troubles that an owner doesn't expect or that will be too expensive (really? you know what 'expensive' is to everyone else?) is just myopic. And, as I have suggested all along, doesn't help anyone. No. It does not.