The Australian X5 Thread

[ard]

Originally Posted by aus x5

Hi Ran,
Try looking up www.dmsautomotive.com.au and see if you can contact someone that can help you with a tuner in melbourne. The info i have is from the oct 2009 MOTOR 'hot tuners' edition where they tuned a 335. Not sure about x5 35d however have seen them advertise tunes for it.

Hope this helps.
Let us know what you find.

Ash

Be interesrted to hear if they do the 'tuning', or they purchase a tune/flash/program from a vendor/programmer elsewhere....

[anzer]

I got my truck back after 3 weeks in shop waiting for handbrake fix. After driving a few kms this morning I now have a fuel pump error coming up.I'm trucking pissed.. My wife now wants me to get rid of it .. What sort of sick joke is the quality in these +100k vehicles

[jamesboags]

Originally Posted by anzer

I got my truck back after 3 weeks in shop waiting for handbrake fix. After driving a few kms this morning I now have a fuel pump error coming up.I'm trucking pissed.. My wife now wants me to get rid of it .. What sort of sick joke is the quality in these +100k vehicles

That sucks.. I bought my E70 in July 2007 (3.0 d) and I have some niggling issues... more recently th ecar going into neutral which is covered in another thread.. but overall no major issues... despite mine being an early MY ...I assume you have a 35d I've seen a bit of fuel pump threads on here about that engine unfortunately.. I haven't had the handbrake issue and it would appear it' surfaced after mine was built and I would suggest related to Auto Hold perhaps ...... Best of Luck...

[anzer]

yes, saw your post re shift to N - hope that one gets sorted - I often wonder if the software upgrades they do along the way can create more harm than good at times

I wrote an email to BMW Sales head today complaining .. my car is a brand spanking 35d - I now have a love hate affair with the X5. I have told them I'll give it one more go before seeking external 3rd party advice - my family needs reliable transport - and I'm not getting that right now. My X5 has now officially been off the road longer than on the road - I have only had it on the road for 3 weeks with 900km on it .. this is really bad and I feel now that everytime I get into it I'm going to expect something to go wrong .. not the 'JOY' experience I was hoping for from BMW...

[jamesboags]

The issue I see is that in the X5 they are continually introducing new features, whilst that is seen as a good thing this means introducing more things that can go wrong and a model never reaches a maturity level where all the possible issues are ironed out.... so you are never buying a car which has been on the market as a complete unit for a period of time where you can say that all the bugs would be ironed out... my 2 cents anyway... I am most likely to buy an ML next time. The designed in Germany built in China mentality is wearing thin on consumers...

[anzer]

but I owned a mazda 6 for almost 5 years prior to this and had ZERO issues over its whole life (and it was a new model when I got it) ...

I just think that these guys rush new gadgets to keep their nose ahead ... at the cost of customer satisfaction when it all goes pear shaped ..

good news for me is that dealer just rang and has committed (in writing) to completely replace my car if I get one more issue within the next 5000km ..so that's made me feel a bit better now ...

[jamesboags]

Originally Posted by anzer

but I owned a mazda 6 for almost 5 years prior to this and had ZERO issues over its whole life (and it was a new model when I got it) ...

I just think that these guys rush new gadgets to keep their nose ahead ... at the cost of customer satisfaction when it all goes pear shaped ..

good news for me is that dealer just rang and has committed (in writing) to completely replace my car if I get one more issue within the next 5000km ..so that's made me feel a bit better now ...

Replace it with a 2007 !!!

[Fraser]

I guess that there is a lot of luck in all this but I've had four different BMWs over a period of nearly 20 years and nothing has ever gone wrong with any of them and they have never been to the dealer except for scheduled service.

[anzer]

at least I know that in the majority things go well for the X5 .. lets hope my next one lives up to that

[Fraser]

Originally Posted by anzer

at least I know that in the majority things go well for the X5 .. lets hope my next one lives up to that

Hope it all works out you. It must be terribly frustrating going through what you have gone through. Good luck!