Can I blame BMW for this?
 

so, it's always BMWs fault, whatever happens to our cars, right? A month ago, my daughter lost "the" key to her X5. Maybe I lost it, I can't remember if I was the last one to move it or not, but I did drive it that day. so did she. it's been a month. we've looked everywhere. she's been driving with the valet key and hates it. well, "that's what you get for losing the one and only "new" key that I bought just a year ago ($187). I'm not buying another one!" So, Saturday, I break down, and we go to the dealer to buy another key, get it ordered. she's driving home, and I'm looking around and yelling at her that if I'm going to be spending money buying new keys, the least she could do is vacuum the X5 out once and a while. well, long story longer, she found the key under the drivers side mat. turns out her mother "thinks" she might have put it there, because she moved the car in the driveway and was too lazy to put the key back in the house. but she'll admit to nothing.
but at least we have a second programmed key now.
any way I can blame BMW for this? other than this issue, it's been an outstanding SUV and my daughter just loves it. in two years, other than the usual issues, I've had no problems with it.

No doubt about it. BMW should never supply mats that can have keys hidden beneath them. Totally uncalled for and a real problem for owners.

Bad Memory Win.

Clearly a well engineered key would levitate its way back into the house and/or its owners pocket, depending on GPS coordinates.

Well if you had an electronic key with a mobile phone app then you would never had this problem. Eventually physical keys become things of the past and no more lost keys.

Similar story here: I lost a set of keys with X5, wife's Hyundai Tucson, two houses of keys, etc.

Found it under the seat of her car about 20 mins after getting a new double set of keys from the dealer. The dealer 'cancelled' both the lost X key and the remaining X key, so my found set with the X key no longer worked, lol!

68.5 yrs on the fookin planet and that was the first set of car/house/stuff keys I had ever 'lost'...er, misplaced and could not find. :)

GL, mD

Please tell me you are joking about blaming BMW hahahahahahhah


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I like this guy.

I would start with closing all joint accounts and finding a good divorce lawyer.

I found my wife's wedding ring under the floormat years ago after she took it off before teaching a martial arts class! Since she has two black belts, I didn't argue :D

BMW though, clearly has a floormat issue!

2002 X5 3.0 302,500 miles
2014 428i 17,000 miles

2004 325i sold at 123,600 miles
2001 325i sold at 66,000 miles

1970 Firebird Under restoration

As any car guy will tell you it is your job to pick up, clean up, repair, and take care of ANYTHING that can be attached to, carried to, or used in any car that is driven or ridden in by others in the family. You see it coming, they do not. You vacuum and detail therefore it is "your job" to find the phone, ear bud, nail file, wedding ring, house keys, whole purse, or anything else that was taken to the car at some point in time and is now "lost".
I personally have "found" the lost items supposedly left it at the store or lost" including Driver's license, company ID, Bus Card cases, ear buds (3x) too many pens to count, items to be exchanged/returned at the store, dry cleaning, and the best was a old family photo in a frame 8X10 (don't ask) under a front seat. I have come to the conclusion that some people drop things and we get to "find" them. Hell, some women loose everything that is at the bottom of a small purse......:bustingup

Some guys can not find their way around their cars or their way home without a GPS. Next time at work mention you enjoy ultimate car detailing and watch the blank expressions. :dunno:

I am sure we all can add to this list.....

:iagree:

When I first bought my X it only had 1 key. I bought a set of 2 blanks with chip on ebay and had a locksmith code and cut them both for $100 and ended up with 3 working keys.

I have a whole lot of stuff in a storage shed while we are building a house and I was climbing over things to get something and when I went to lock up the storage unit I discovered my keyring had come apart (was partly hanging out of my pocket) and the X key and my wife's E87 key were missing and had fallen off somewhere in the storage unit.

I pulled out a whole lot of stuff and checked any box/container that they could have dropped in, but couldn't find them. Had to call my wife to bring spare key. I was very grateful to still have 2 keys. Only problem now is the spare for the E87 is still missing and that would expensive to replace (in dash - start/stop button on dash).

Hopefully when I move stuff out of storage I will find both keys.