In a prior life, I had a 2000 4.4. Those are great cars. A bit hoggish on fuel, but lots of fun.

Congrats, and welcome.

This has been mostly just sitting around in the driveway, awaiting the time that I can pull and rebuild the transmission. However, today I found on craigslist a 2001 X5 that is being parted out with a verified good transmission in it, I am snagging it for $700! Between my time and money, I can't rebuild mine myself for that cheap so I'm going for it! Anything else I should snag that you can think of that is common to go bad on these?

While it has been sitting I removed the nasty PPF on the hood and fenders, cleaned the headlights up and pulled / cleaned / polished the wheels!

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While I was cleaning the wheels up, I also pulled and cleaned all the wheel speed sensors hoping that was the source of my ABS engagement at low speeds trying to accelerate and when braking, no luck. I will need to get a scanner that can read what's going on.

Holy crap $700! Thats awesome! Good luck fixing her up, and great start!

Yea, $700 is about half of what I could find anywhere else and this one was personally driven by the shop owner and he guarantees it, most that I found had more miles and are at least double the price!