2005 X5 3.0 M/T not moving very well (solved)

[StirFriedPanda]

Hello

I bought a 2005 BMW X5 with a manual transmission a few months ago. It has about 160,000 miles on it and has been running fine until about 2 weeks ago. I drove to work in the morning and everything was fine. When I got into it to go to lunch that afternoon it would move forward a little bit and then nothing. The engine would just rev up and the car would not go anywhere.

Had it towed to my mechanics shop and he threw it on the lift with me in it to manipulate the clutch and get the tires spinning while he looked at the drive train. He didn't see anything wrong on the exterior and lowered it to the ground. It then started to run fine for no reason at all. We did not do anything at all to it. He told me to drive it like normal and see if ti happens again. Three days later it happened again. Same scenario to a T. Driving to work in the morning it was fine. Trying to leave for lunch it would not move.

There is no grinding noise and there were not warning signs that anything was going to fail. Just stopped moving. You can get it to sort of move by keep engaging the clutch, but then it will kick like it will catch for a second. The clutch was replaced by the previous owner in April of this year. Any help would be appreciated.