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Hi Guys,

Just wanted to introduce myself to the community here. I got my X5 about 2 weeks back. Its a 2005 4.4i in Sterling Silver with black leather. Overall its in a good condition but as soon as I left the dealership the gearbox did some hard shifts and even a bang when I was cruising around 70 KM/h. I started to panic over it and complained to the dealer. But weird enough, after driving it for a week the gearbox improved. The first 2 gears are not as smooth as the remaining gears, but its more like a 'you feel its not new' as there is an issue. I am struggling to explain that, but maybe the gearbox was reset into learning mode and it overall helped to address an issue.

On the to do list are (already):

• replace the LCD from the screen (blind spots)
• fix the windshield washer (guess its the relay, not one of the three pumps work)
• figure out why the aircon kicks in late (potentially not enough gas)
• get missing interior parts for the driver door (small plastic parts like the 'Airbag' screw cover and 2 more)

Back in Germany about 7 years ago I was quite active in the E38 scene and implanted a car PC into my 7 series. Wrote a long tutorial about it which (hopefully) helped others to do the same.

My plan is to do something similar with the X5, but instead of a PC I will use a Raspberry Pi. There is already a project that progressed quite far:

http://www.bmwraspcontrol.de/

Guess many members now the project already. But the first step is to get the damn screen fixed. Spare screen is on its way from China for $115.

I am sure, I will be here quite frequently looking at all the potential issues a 10 year old X5 can ran into :D

Greetings from Down Under!

Holger

Welcome and congrats on the new purchase!

Congrats and welcome Love the color!

love the colour! welcome and congrats :)

Test your washer pumps first. I've actually had all three fail over a 60 day period in the past.

2002 X5 3.0 289,600 miles
2004 325i 123,000 miles

Welcome! Your X looks awesome.

Nice colour!

Nice! Love the 168s on that color

Welcome to Xoutpost, Holger! That really is a beautiful E53 you have, thanks for sharing the pix.

I'm particularly interested to hear about the progress of your RPi project. I would like to get one set up in my E53 as an audio player. I intend to keep the original MID/CD player, using the RPi through the Aux input. Maybe eventually completely integrate the RPi as a replacement head unit. Let us know how your project goes.

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Welcome to the family of X5!

This has to be one of the nicest colors applied to the X5. Congrats and welcome

Thanks Guys! Fell in love with the color too. Our 2nd car is in almost the same color (a '02 Saab 9-3 2.0t Convertible).

I will check the pumps for the washer first before getting a relay. And once I start the Raspberry project I will make a separate thread on it :).

Discovered that my rear right tire is leaking air. They are pratically new, judging from the thread and how they look. Hopefully I don't need to replace it. These 315 on 20" are not cheap.

Welcome, nice color and wheels!

Welcome!
That is one nice species of X5's, love the color!

Very interested in your Raspberry project! I've just done an Android upgrade in my car, however being a computer nerd (my profession) I'm always looking for ways to get more computers into my cars :-)

Welcome!

love the color and black gloss trim

welcome brah!

new member here as well

Nice colour combo. Bought mine about 7 months ago. Almost identical to yours. Welcome to the forum and great group of enthusiasts.

One of my favorite colors too.

Welcome to the forum.

Check your trans fluid. Specifically if someone ever decided to service it before you, they could have filled it with the wrong juice, or worse yet, filled it wrong.

Nice looking car. Looks very similar to mine. Will look at the pi project closely. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks again guys!

@SlickGT1
For me it fells like some missing oil. Drove when I lived in Asia a few cars with automatic transmissions and lack of oil created the same glitches. At the moment the gearbox runs well. But first shifts in the morning come late and I have to park my car uphill (15 - 20 degree angle) - my frontyard is not even. Doesnt happen when my car is parked for 10 hours in an even place. Not really concerning, just an observation but I will go soon to a specialist and at least check oil level.

Had fun today at the tire shop. I identified a screw as the cause for the leak in my rear right tire. So I went there to get it fixed. The tires are so big (315 cm wide) that they were not able to fit that in the machine to get it off the rim :bustingup

So they had to reactivate an old machine with a different design, which was able to take the tire.

They found one screw and one nail. Fixed it with patches and I paid $30 (AUD) after watching a cursing mechanic for 40 minutes complaining about the "dimension of the project".

My TFT screen is still on its way, it just left Guangzhou and a RaspberryPi is already waiting on my desk!

My replacement TFT arrived yesterday and fixed my head unit already. No more dead pixels! I also ran into the issue, where I had to adjust H-Pos. Quite a pain to keep it half assembled and connected in the car and then try to adjust the small pot on the back.

After some cursing it was done. So I can take that one off the list as well, washer pumps are still on it as well as the 'late aircon' problem.

No as the screen looks good, I will do an update to V32 and get my hands dirty with the raspberry project.