Time to say goodbye to the 4.8is

[upallnight]

At least you knew when it was time to pull the plug instead of tossing good money after bad money.

[lhordmclain]

Case to case basis for different owners

I wish the OP best of luck in finding a new vehicle,
And Please post in the near future the specs

Originally Posted by upallnight

At least you knew when it was time to pull the plug instead of tossing good money after bad money.

[sockethead]

Originally Posted by tmv

GLWS. If you trade it in, what's next?
The "iS" is still one of the best SUV on the road today. If $15k was warranty works then you didn't put $24k into it. Some new owners might find the figure scary.

Still $24k of work was done to it no matter who paid for it. I'm not bashing or trying to scare people away, just telling our experience. We love our X5. Financially, it's time to let it go... from the heart, we'd keep it forever.

What's next? My wife moved from BMW to parts manager at Acura (same parent company owns the whole complex of 10 dealerships) They have a '08 MDX, completely optioned out and half the mileage for dealer cost so we'll see how that works out.... it certainly aint no X5.
We still have three other BMWs.... My wife has a heavily modified 135, I have an e46 ZHP and we have an F30 X drive for a daily driver. The 135 and e46 stay in storage over the winter and we used the X5 for shitty weather and road trips with the trailer out to Ohio with the twins and dogs. It was our favorite so we used it a lot.

Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby

I'd say considering the cost of the trucks when new, if 15k of 24k was covered under warranty and you got the major things out of the way, I'd say you were well caught up and probably the next owner should have mostly trouble free years ahead.

Good luck man we are gonna miss you on here, great price your X is beautiful.

All the LeMans are getting sold, first TwinsPoppa, then relentless1 in South Jersey, and now sockethead in South Jersey.

A guy saw it on Craig's list and he's buying it tomorrow. He's really excited. So, yea we feel pretty good about selling it in it's present condition with all the work that's been done to it. We hate to sell anything that sucks.
He understands that they need a lot of TLC. I told him he needs to join this site so maybe you'll see our LeMans blue back on here again soon. Who knows? I may be on here now and then to give my two cents. I know a hell of a lot about the E53 now lol

Originally Posted by TerminatorX5

Rob, see you at the Bimmerfest.

definitely!

[J.Belknap]

GLWS. See ya at bimmerfest dude.

[Ricky Bobby]

Hope the CL sale goes smooth Rob that was fast! It's been real fun with you here at ill prob see you at Bimfest this year with your other cars!

[sockethead]

So we're at the bank exchanging money and my wife is showing him how the switch for the suspension works and it goes into self leveling suspension inactive... WTF? This thing will not go quietly!
I think the module is bad again because the TPMS light is on too. Luckily we had the module replaced and coded by Kristen's BMW dealership so it will be covered under warranty but Jesus! The guy took it anyway but we had to sign that we would fix it.
Man, I hate to say it but I just want this thing to go away now

[relentlessone]

Originally Posted by sockethead

So we're at the bank exchanging money and my wife is showing him how the switch for the suspension works and it goes into self leveling suspension inactive... WTF? This thing will not go quietly!
I think the module is bad again because the TPMS light is on too. Luckily we had the module replaced and coded by Kristen's BMW dealership so it will be covered under warranty but Jesus! The guy took it anyway but we had to sign that we would fix it.
Man, I hate to say it but I just want this thing to go away now

They are vindictive little f*ckers. The night before my X5's new owner picked her up, the tail light went out and one of the parking sensors stopped working. The tail light bulb contact just needed to be bent in more, and the parking sensor needed to have some corrosion removed, but I had my bumper off in my driveway at 9pm in the rain. Not fun. I don't think I even looked back when the new owner drove away, lol.

For what it's worth, I learned which parking sensor was bad by listening to which one wasn't clicking when activated, something I learned here on the forum. This really is a great community with a wealth of knowledge, so anyone buying an X5 certainly doesn't need to worry about being on their own with these issues.

Best of luck sockethead!

[Ricky Bobby]

Is your compressor new or did you buy a repair kit for it? There's a chance the seal could be wornt out on the piston throwing the error. Wonder what the error is in the module

[sockethead]

Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby

Is your compressor new or did you buy a repair kit for it? There's a chance the seal could be wornt out on the piston throwing the error. Wonder what the error is in the module

Yea the compressor is new as well as all 4 air bags. after that it worked for like a day before the module went. We drove it like that for a year until we got sick of looking at it. I believe it was you, my friend, that told us if the TPMS light is on too that the module is bad and sure enough it was at that time.

I briefly had a chance to hook up the GT1 to it before the owner took it. It said that the left front and rear leveling sensors were bad.... I don't believe it because we got that last time too and swapping the sensors made no difference. Unfortunately there wasn't enough time to run though the diagnostic routine to clear the error as everyone had to get back to their jobs...

[TwinsPoppa]

Rob,

Congrats on the twins! They're very close to the age that was very fun for me!

Sorry to hear about selling the X. I know how you feel and I also know how well you took care of that beast.

Remember this from Bimmerfest 2012? You and Kristen.

http://www.xoutpost.com/893575-post40.html

See you at Bimmerfest later this year!