The most annoying thing about your X5...

[soldmystang]

Originally Posted by deutsch100

That's odd. Both my 2007 & 2008 X5 had great radio/satellite information.

On Sirius, it will say for example "90's Alternative" Jane's Addiction with the Song Jane says.

For the radio it will say (for example) STAR 98.7, Plain white T's with the song Hey there Delilah

mine must be broken. lame music such as listed above won't play.

[Judyd]

Just noticed a definite annoyance today!!

I now remember it being mentioned in other threads: metal seat belt latch makes small nicks on door pillars. This was not the case with the first generation x5's. When you unlatch the seat belt and don't hold on to it, it flies again the door pillar and there is a little indentation left! Argh!

[Tango22]

Originally Posted by Judyd

Just noticed a definite annoyance today!!

I now remember it being mentioned in other threads: metal seat belt latch makes small nicks on door pillars. This was not the case with the first generation x5's. When you unlatch the seat belt and don't hold on to it, it flies again the door pillar and there is a little indentation left! Argh!

Judyd, see post #9 of this thread.

[Michelle]

Originally Posted by Michelle

When I had the E70 loaner, the RDS on the radio annoyed the hell out of me! I want it to display the name and artist of the song, but it really screws up the preset station IDs. When I first set the RDS to "on," a Kenny Chesney song was playing on the one station, so the station ID is showing as "KENNY" and not WPOC, like it should. WIYY is showing as "MICKEY" because that is part of the name of the morning show.

I had an E70 loaner last week and I found the fix for this issue.

If you program the radio presets with RDS turned off, it will display the station information - normally their call letters - once RDS it turned on. It's not 100% correct (one station showed as LOCAL-44 instead of HOT99.5), but it was a BIG improvement over the artist names or song titles that would show when the presets are programmed with RDS turned on.

Gresch - Thank you for passing this along to me.

[juicer]

Giving the current 4.8is to the wife
My new 4.8i is not here for another 4 days!

Seriously though, the current 4.8is has the following annoying little issues;

Passenger side head rest rattles a little - it gets looked at every service and I lube it regularly, but when it dries out it rattles again.

Glovebox configuration, small and awkward to get into

[meruyailir]

It's big...

[Fredo]

The near side mirror doesn't dip sufficiently to see the curb which is annoying because it did on both my previous BMW's (E46 M3 and E60 535d).

Why can't you prgramme the folding mirrors to fold automatically when locking the car? Again this is somethign that worked fine on my previous cars.

In general I think the ride is exellent....those of you complaining about the run flats should have driven some earlier models like my 2004 535d that had run flats fitted. Indeed I would say my E70 rides better on RFT's than my 535d after I had changed back to regular tyres from the RF's that were fitted as standard. For some reason the E70 isn't great with speed bumps....have to drive really slowly over the otherwise it kind of slams down coming off them. Much worse than previous cars...I would have thought it would have been better.

[michaeljr6]

-my back pack + passenger seat = annoying seat belt sound.
-the headrest makes a noise when i'm driving.
-my left tail light LED isn't working.
-the radio station switches to the weather broadcast whenever i start up the car again.
-the steering wheel vibrates and makes a weird squeaky noise whenever i move it.

[pureflames]

Originally Posted by michaeljr6

-my back pack + passenger seat = annoying seat belt sound.
-the headrest makes a noise when i'm driving.
-my left tail light LED isn't working.
-the radio station switches to the weather broadcast whenever i start up the car again.
-the steering wheel vibrates and makes a weird squeaky noise whenever i move it.

all of these can be fixed with a trip to your dealer

[y5choi]

When I put stuff on the passanger seat, it beeps (or chimes) to tell my stuff to put a seat belt on.