The most annoying thing about your X5...

[PUZZ]

Originally Posted by kevinlpl

I have driven and loved BMWs for 20 years. I have owned 9. There are more irritants on the X5 then any previous BMW. The X5 4.8 is 11 months old with 12,000 miles.

-Electronic shifter, shifts back to Park if you open the door when backing up and looking back to see. Yes I have the camera but sometimes you need to open the door to see. I don't want electronic Nannies!
-iDrive hate it hate it hate it, way too many inputs to get to simple needs. I will never buy another BMW with it. I may have to move to Porsche or Audi in the future.
-Run Flats, they are tires from my tricycle.
-Start button, give me an old fashioned key much simpler and everything happens in one step.
-CD player in glove box, can't put much in the glove box with out blocking it.
-Throttle/motor acceleration is not smooth. It is better when Transmission is in DS mode, but still not great. Guest in my car think I am trying to showoff, I cannot accelerate smoothly. They need to re-map the fuel injection. (any one know someone who can do this?)
-Warning beep for safety belt never stops.
-Gas mileage is horrible. My 6.0 Denali was 30% better. 12 in town vs 16 mpg. Dealer said it would improve.......No it hasn't.
-Plastic parts keep breaking, both visors, heater vent controls, buttons
-did I mention iDrive?.....which encompasses about 100+ things.
-Center console difficult to open, I have learned how but my wife still struggles.
-Sunroof is too complicated, in order to get it all the way open you have to press it far too many times.
-Brakes! the feel is poor and the power assist is toooo much initially. Very little pressure creates significant braking. If I am not careful friends heads are bobbing back and forth. Toooo sensitive. Hard to modulate.
-Steering a touch too heavy and dull.

I could live with this car for a long time if they fixed my three biggest complaints:
1. Dump iDrive
2. Re-map acceleration/Fuel injection/Throttle
3. Fix Brake modulation control.

The above issues should not be part of the ultimate driving machine.

So, when are you dumping your X5? Sounds like you absolutely hate it.

[Bartek S]

Run flats only. It's the best X5 sins begining, I drive 3-d one for past 7 years.

[zerochief]

selflevel susp inact

[FSETH]

Originally Posted by deutsch100

-Rear blinkers should be Yellow/Orange as is mandated in Germany, and up until the 2006 3 Series sedan...all BMWs had yellow blinkers. I find the red blinkers to look very American, and in bright sunlight....they're hard to see mixed with brake lights. That's the reason Germany requires different coloured blinkers, compared to brake lights.

Yellow/orange is so much easier to see and safer. Also, some e39 wagons had red signals. Other than that, I cant think of any other modern era BMW's with red signals besides current models.

[rh71]

Oh have to agree with pushing the rear window down when intending to push down the driver's window. The buttons are placed way too far forward.

Also have to agree with managing the brakes... too sensitive at the lightest touch and I cannot seem to adjust to it. At least it's minor stuff for me.

[soldmystang]

internet forums.

[pureflames]

I wish the outside mirrors folded automatically instead of manually activating each time at startup and shutdown.

[jun_of]

My wife hates the running board and never stops expressing it and I'm already getting annoyed

[M-individual]

It uses more fuel than a jet fighter taking off with its afterburners at full power.

Otherwise, nothing to complain about.

[bigtoe]

Originally Posted by pureflames

I wish the outside mirrors folded automatically instead of manually activating each time at startup and shutdown.

Initially, I thought the same as you.
Now, I consider that as a worthy design:
Just in case parking in a crowded or spaceless place or someone parked very close to you, keeping the side mirrors folded until getting to a "safe" place is beneficial.