Overall quality of the interior!

[5seriesHB]

Wow I really opened a can of worms with this thread!

Ps I gotta bring my X back to the dealer when I get some time. Passenger front door rattles in the arm rest again,gets pretty darn loud!
That crap felt tape that they put on any issue now adays has failed!
So I'll politely ask them.....can u fix the issue now and not put a band aid on the Awwwwey!
Cheap dealers
Always looking to cut corners
There just like employees, they need to be tainted everyday

[seattle]

I kinda feel sorry for the dealership service guys sometimes. Some of the issues (creaks and rattles) are just due to bad design (hard plastic in contact with leather). They can't really do much about it, except put felt tape as band aid fix.

[5seriesHB]

Originally Posted by seattle

I kinda feel sorry for the dealership service guys sometimes. Some of the issues (creaks and rattles) are just due to bad design (hard plastic in contact with leather). They can't really do much about it, except put felt tape as band aid fix.

Thats a great point
ill take that into consideration when talking to the dealership. no sense in being hard on something that is a system wide issue.
Cheers
but damn that rattling is annoying!
just gotta go faster or put the sound up...
i guess that saying "dont sweat the small stuff applies here!
Seattle: have a beautiful day! at least its not raining right? LOL

[johnmn]

Originally Posted by ALPINE_X5

COLD WEATHER - will bring the creaks in the best of cars.

Hmmm. My wife's Volvo V50 is 7 years old, has 106k miles, and not a squeek, creak, or rattle in the cabin, no matter how cold. Can't say that for my E70.

[seattle]

Originally Posted by johnmn

Hmmm. My wife's Volvo V50 is 7 years old, has 106k miles, and not a squeek, creak, or rattle in the cabin, no matter how cold. Can't say that for my E70.

My '99 Corolla got none of that too!

[seattle]

Originally Posted by 5seriesHB

Seattle: have a beautiful day! at least its not raining right? LOL

Of course it's raining!
Had a dry streak for past 2 weeks, with temps at 25 at night, sunny during day.
Had something called "temperature inversion", where nearby mountains had 40F closer to top, but 1000ft below, temps were in 20s.
But it's back to normal now - 40F, rain/mist, low clouds (more like grey mass).

[5seriesHB]

Originally Posted by seattle

Of course it's raining!
Had a dry streak for past 2 weeks, with temps at 25 at night, sunny during day.
Had something called "temperature inversion", where nearby mountains had 40F closer to top, but 1000ft below, temps were in 20s.
But it's back to normal now - 40F, rain/mist, low clouds (more like grey mass).

ur a luky man to be living in such a tropical paradise...have fun with the rattles! LOL

[Noodle555]

Originally Posted by ard

I'm going to posit that interior wear is a function of care.

I disagree with this. I am quite anal about car care and clean and condition the interior and exterior for that matter regularly. If you search the ailments that I posted you will find that the problems are all too common. My M3 has bubbling interior trim pain, also a generic problem with the titanium trim, but not one other issue. My M3 is 10 years old so I harldy think it's a function of care. Incidentally manufactured in Germany, perhaps some correlation?

I have always been a BMW fanatic but these problems are making me think that I would not buy another X5.

[X5X]

I've got the extended leather pack + leather dashboard, so not much plastic showing But I have never had a problems on my past X5s, only my '08 when the glove box cover/lid Started to peel, which is apparently fairly common on the 3.0si. I have seen several in the flesh with the same problem.

[m34vert]

IMO the seating areas are well designed with the exception of leather on the plastic. Most of that noise comes when you enter/exit the vehicle.

The luggage compartment specifically the lower lift gate is a creaky mess. The overlapping plastic chatters in the cold. I lined the underside of the overlapping piece with felt tape and have almost completely eliminated the noise.

The new tire's I put on have helped/hurt this though. Car rides much smoother now over cracks so less vibration, car's also silent so you hear everything. I am hearing something again out of the back area, will have to investigate or drop the right foot and drown it out more!