I had no air coming out of the vents, i looked at the fsr and it was indeed broken (crack through the epoxy), i replaced it with the new fsr and the fan functions normal again.

Cept the ticking noise is still present when the truck is off.

Sounds like you had two problems, and fixed one of them already.

Yupp, except a lot of ppl have the ticking noise coming from the left of the temp display when the ignition is off.

Yes, I can hear the fan running, no I cannot feel air from the vents and yes I do have battery drain issues.

X5Girl, xxx

I'd check the FSR first as it isn't hard to do.

Check the final stage resistor. It is more than likely the problem.

a bad FSR can give multiple symptoms. I had similar symptoms, I replaced the FSR and it fixed it.

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Checking the FSR isn't hard to do, unless you have to swap it out and you happen to have the older design FSR with the big fat fins. If that's the case, then the glove box would have to come out in order to replace that FSR.

I managed to replace mine without removing the glove box...but it probably took more effort than it would have to just remove the glove box.

You guys rock! Bad FSR was causing my fan to intermittently run when the X was off and overnight it would drain the (brand new) battery enough that it wouldn't start in the morning. Two days of that was enough and I swapped out the FSR (around $115 for the part with BMW CCA discount) and she's all better! Thank God for X5 World!

I'm small (5'8" and like 130 lbs wet) and was pretty easily able to remove my old style FSR without removing the glove box. I was actually surprised how well the swap went :)