goodbye...
 

tomorrow i say goodbye to the x5. it started out as a great car only to have more trips to the dealership for a stupid electrical issues mainly dealing with the radio. i will miss not having any audio when driving home on a hot sunny summer day. i will miss not having 3 out of 4 of my turn signal blow out at the same time. i will miss not having my left mirror not fold out all the way in the cold. i will miss those random self leveling suspension inactive warnings. i will miss my sa at the dealership whom i got to know all to well. the lemon x5 shall be taken away in return i will be the owner of a 5 series sedan. i can only hope i don't rekindle my relationship with the sa. thanks to all those who posted similar problems and other tidbits of information. it's been a good read while i tried to get this car fixed, but thankfully it will be gone. goodbye...

You know, it was all your fault.......

no its not.

I am going through the same thing with my 00 4.4 I have had so many stupid problems with it, that I just want rid of it! But I keep thinking to myself "oh I will fix this and that will be the end for awhile" But no.... To my surprise something else, But I love it so much, and hate it so much all at once! My $3200 1994 Jep is more reliable than my $25,000 BMW. Ohwell Life goes on! But at the end of the day I can say I own a BMW!

that sucks - i started off with alot of turn signal light problems on right rear light. i bought a new taillight and has been good since. Was mainly due to the contact for the bulb. love my X though!! till death do us part...

I may be grilled because I do not "belong" anymore to the X5 club. But I still like and still are a big fan of BMW (that's why I still read the forum).

I traded my 96,000 miles + 01 X5 for an Acura MDX a couple of months ago.

Loved my X but the warranty expired (I was short of 100K miles) and I got "scared" as I've had many problems with the X since day one, from stupid things (that honestly should not be happening in such a car, like window regulators, sensors, lights, heating, etc. etc etc.) to big ones (coolants issues, oil came out completely due to a bad hose or something, etc. etc. etc).

I would have loved to keep the X for at least another 50k miles as "in theory" these cars should go that far with no major issues, especially when maintenance is done by the book (or even over the recommendations in my case) and I do not do any mods.

All these where fixed under warranty but now, I do not have the time to deal with taking it to the dealer, picking up the loaner, going back hoping they fixed the problem ok, etc. etc. plus the cost of repairs for out of warranty can get pretty high. I even talked to my service adviser with whom we became pretty good friends and asked him if these cars have lots of issues when they hit 100K, to which he responded "oh, yes all kinds"

Do I like the MDX? yes it drives great, plenty powerful and handling is excellent (the AWD in snow is amazing). Do I love the looks as I do the looks of the X? no, but I can live with it. Do I miss the X? yes when it was working fine and because I have always been biased to BMW, but honestly the MDX is a very nice drive with nothing to envy in the power / handling department.
So far 5K miles trouble free. Let's see if the Japanese reliability is as good as they claim.

I am not badmouthing the X or lobbying for the MDX, I love the X and BMW in general, the X just become "not practical" for me any more.

I've tried getting a 3 series XI station wagon but BMW was giving me nothing for my X (And I have bought from them a 95 / 5 series (best car I've ever owned), a bike and the X ). so I said no (I was pretty pissed actually for the lack of interest and loyalty to returning clients) and believe me I was willing to take a small hit but not something stupid as they offered (they claimed they had way too many X CPO's) .

We shall see, in a couple of years when my lease is up on the Acura hopefully I can get an X6 or go back to a BMW car.

Best of luck if you are getting the 5 series I am sure you will be happy.

Side: sold my 2004 X5 for a Expedition XL. I didn't unload mine because of issues though.

^^^^i agree!did the same thing got rid of the X5 and bought 08 MDX all i can say is :thumbup:

Sorry to hear about your issues with your X, but all i got to say is, not all issues you guys have dealt with happens to all X5 owners. I never had issues with my first BMW (e46) that some e46 owners have reported on e46fanatics.com. And on my second BMW, whichs is the X, i am still enjoying it. No complaints here. I would definitely go for BMW for my next car, so far so good.

you had to buy a new taillight?!?!?!?! i fixed mine with a tiny bit of aluminum foil at the electrical contacts. try it in case the corrosion happens again.