Soft Close Doors: Worth it?

[mtech8]

Just wanted some feedback from people's using experience with shutting their doors. My younger sister drives an older 04 ML and her doors are super annoying. They need to be shut with some force otherwise a repeat will be required! I've tried shutting the doors on the X5 a few times at the dealer. Ironically on some vehicles they shut very easily (with minimal force), while on others I had to do a repeat.

Just wondering what the overall experience is with shutting the doors without soft close doors. Is a lot of force required? (I hate slamming doors).

I'm speculating that the 2009 X5's bound for the US MIGHT have that option available. Since the 2008 X6's already include it and everywhere else besides the US have it on the X5's already.