The most annoying thing about your X5...

['10-X5-35d]

I just can't believe that someone will order a 80k SAV without NAV.

Yes, I know, I wrote Full !

[Marwan1]

The 2 stopping points for the doors when open... My garage is rather narrow. My X5 has to be parked at a specific distance from the nearest wall which is unfortunately too close for the door to open fully without hitting the wall. The only other point where the door stops when open makes the opening too narrow to easily move my son in and out of his car seat... How about more stopping points or a mechanism to hold the doors wherever one wants them after opening them (doesn't the new 7 series have that?).

[blktoptrvl]

The parking brake is useless.

From 30K miles till now (100K) it has never held a hill. Each time I took it to the dealer they just tightened the cables using the adjusting bolts on the parking lever so that it would hold for a few weeks. Never bothering to fix the root problem (the ratcheting teeth on the handbrake lever were worn down).

After 50K when I looked into this myself, I could see both the worn teeth and that the fact that the cable has been tightened to it's limit. When I complained to BMW their solution was that I need a new $900 brake lever.

[irfan]

-Cheapass Nevada leatherette. No way thats actual leather.
-no armrest padding for doors or center console
-parking sensor button isnt located more conveniently
-i always hit the rear windows buttons
-no ALL button on climate system
-weak air volume coming from left dash vents
-useless running boards actually make it HARDER to get in and out
-cant read HUD w/ polarized sunglasses
-Active ventilated seats doubly suck- no vent power whatsoever, and the active function is extremely uncomfortable

[blondboinsd]

Originally Posted by irfan

-Cheapass Nevada leatherette. No way thats actual leather.
-no armrest padding for doors or center console
-parking sensor button isnt located more conveniently
-i always hit the rear windows buttons
-no ALL button on climate system
-weak air volume coming from left dash vents
-useless running boards actually make it HARDER to get in and out
-cant read HUD w/ polarized sunglasses
-Active ventilated seats doubly suck- no vent power whatsoever, and the active function is extremely uncomfortable

Did you actually test the car before buying it?

[irfan]

Originally Posted by blondboinsd

Did you actually test the car before buying it?

are any of those things a complete deal breaker? Nappa wasnt available. the rest, whatever, any car has issues... but this is a bitching thread so thats what Im doing.

[swisstype]

I have a 2008 X5 4.8. I do love my X5! The annoying things, well, you figure ways around things and build something of a relationship with your vehicle. I put 40k + a year on mine, so I am damn near married to mine.
Yeah, Mine had squeaks, but I fixed them. Mine doenst have the all button, so I have to tweak one more dial to keep my OCD about congruency in check.
I do roll down the rear windo on accidnet some times, but I am not in such a hurry that I dont stop it in time and simply move my hand slightly to do mine.
The leather is what it is. I had a 7 an dit was super nice. This is a "truck" for lack of a better term an d I like haveing a bit more rugged of a material .
The rest of it, well, we just arent going to have a car where EVERY little nuance makes sense. My X5 has quirks, but I work around these little issues. You say wahts annoying, I say I love how mine PIVOTS at times around corners, the engine snarls when I accelerate and the body roll is at a minimum on a cloverleaf. That can cover a lot of leatherette and misplaced buttons in my book.

[blondboinsd]

Originally Posted by swisstype

I have a 2008 X5 4.8. I do love my X5! The annoying things, well, you figure ways around things and build something of a relationship with your vehicle. I put 40k + a year on mine, so I am damn near married to mine.
Yeah, Mine had squeaks, but I fixed them. Mine doenst have the all button, so I have to tweak one more dial to keep my OCD about congruency in check.
I do roll down the rear windo on accidnet some times, but I am not in such a hurry that I dont stop it in time and simply move my hand slightly to do mine.
The leather is what it is. I had a 7 an dit was super nice. This is a "truck" for lack of a better term an d I like haveing a bit more rugged of a material .
The rest of it, well, we just arent going to have a car where EVERY little nuance makes sense. My X5 has quirks, but I work around these little issues. You say wahts annoying, I say I love how mine PIVOTS at times around corners, the engine snarls when I accelerate and the body roll is at a minimum on a cloverleaf. That can cover a lot of leatherette and misplaced buttons in my book.

Wow 40k? How many miles on the odometer?

[BGM]

When you are on radio or iPod, hit one of the hot programmable buttons to get to a Sirius/XM channel and there is that little time delay--and makes you hit the button again because you think it didn't switch to it.

[tribecax5]

Folding rear DVD entertainment system that I keep hitting very time with my elbow. I hurt my elbow really bad the other day. Whoever designed that was just clueless.