Prop, Let me know if you want me to check my contacts for whatever field you're normally in.

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Sold my 2004 4.8iS last week, it was on just over 112k miles.
Took quite a hit on what I was able to sell it for compared to what I paid 18 months ago, partly due to the previous owner lying about 2 faults.
I can't say I'll miss it, I don't think BMW's are for me. Perhaps I'm being unfair, it was the 1st Beemer I've owned in the 20+ cars I've had, and can't see me wanting another.
That probably sounds quite salty :rant:, maybe I'm just less patient these days.
Hopefully my Panda 100hp, which is quite the contrast to a V8 X5, will give me less grief :p:

Totally fair. If the 1st Bimmer I owned was a 20yr old E53, I would have sailed away immediately. Might I suggest the inline 6 wrapped around an E46 or as you are in UK, you have TONS of 1 series options. My daughter's 128 has been great for 4 years.

What's the MPG? :thumbup:

In fairness, you did pick one of the least reliable BMWs ever made (among a long list of extremely unreliable options) as your first BMW :confused:

Can you imagine if it were a '91 850ci? Or hell, ANY V12. :wow:

Or any S engine or N63 first gen.


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I did my homework. It's why I avoided any V8 model. So far, the M54 has been rock steady! It's all the other stuff that eats my wallet. :tgif:

choose wisely, or at least try something new/different
 

My first, only, and most probably my last Bimmer (or any other personal car) was a nearly 20yr old E53, when I swapped for it in 5/2021 (it's b'day is 7/2001). When I gave the neighbor my preferences for an AWD, or 4WD to swap for, in '17 (he was to buy and prepare/repair it to swap for my '66 Chevelle drag race car), I specified

• 1) a '01-03 BMW X5 E53 with the M54,
• 2) a '98-01 Jeep XJ 4WD w/straight 6 cylinder,
• 3) a '99-04 Jeep WJ 4WD, also w/straight 6, or
• 4) a '96-04 Chevrolet Blazer 4-Door 4WD, 4.3l V-6

Actually there were 10 models on my list, but when he found some to look at/into, and to describe them to me, the X5 moved to the top (though I saw the S-10 as a sentimental favorite, after owning a 2wd S-10 extended cab pickup for almost 20 years). It took him over 3.5 years to get it to a tradeable condition (nearly all systems rebuilt).

No regrets, so far, but I always wanted a BMW, loved the first-gen E53 styling from day-one, and never had an SUV (SAV) or AWD/4WD before, so it ticked-off a few boxes on my wish list, at one time. I've had just about every car, truck, engine, etc. that I'd wanted, previously, so why not an old E53?

That's funny workingonit, when we decided to buy a camper trailer in 2016 we first bought a 2001 Grand Cherokee to tow with it. I think I paid around $4k for it, which was a great deal since it was in good shape even though it was old.


Six days after we bought it I got rear-ended by an octogenarian in a Cadillac. It bent the frame of the Jeep so the guy's insurance gave us $6300 which is exactly what we paid for this X5. This BMW had half the miles and was a way nicer car than the WJ. I think we lucked out.

Two i6's in the past and 2 N62's current. I brought my baby girl home from the hospital in an '04 i6 with a small sunroof. (in 2004)

Since we sold my beloved i6 for the '04 4.8is, we have taken the 4.8is through a couple dozen National Parks, we've traversed both borders, dipped our toes in both oceans (and the Gulf, of course). We have driven as far North, South, East and West as possible in the CONUS. 185k miles. I still wanna drive to Denali NP in Alaska. My daughter is in the shadow of her 20th birthday this Summer. She still brings up the road trips.

I'll trade that sh!t and whatever it costs against my old ass X5 and any beige Camry of any year, any day, anywhere, anytime. Screw reliability! :p:

I was told I could have bought a newer Camry for what I paid for my X5.

My reply: yes but then I'd have to drive a Camry!


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:rofl: Werd, T Bird. :thumbup:

I just hit 288,888!

Now it's time for another complete front-end job plus motor & transmission mounts... [emoji53]

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Bro. I wasn't as explicit, but I totally said the same thing to my wife ab our 26th anniversary this week. ;)

Also.. mine and her's anniversary. We've had an E53 throuple for years before we married into a self-destructing N62 foursome.

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Is that Kilometers or miles?

149,000+ miles. It's still new! :bmw:

182,061 miles and the White Witch has been keeping suspension manufacturers in champagne for awhile now...[emoji1787]

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That's the Saudi Roads isn't it?

I think it's a combination of tungsten foot and the roads but why drive an X5 and not push it. Want a boring car get a suburu Forester.

Totally agree

I used that specific example l because when I drive my dad's Forester, it's feels like I'm going 15-20 mph faster than I am.

Yeah my granddaughter had one. Drove it several times. Tinny. I think that's why it feels like you're going faster than you are.

It has to be, I drive like Miss Daisy!! [emoji1787]

At least that's the story I'm sticking to!

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Miss daisy crashed her car that's why she needed a hired driver :-).


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True but that was in reverse, and I never use that gear....[emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787]

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:rofl::rofl::rofl:

A quick shot up the road a piece to see the hip doc and boom.. Yet another meaningless error in my money shot. :(

Oh- and just cause it was a really good day in the E30...

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I was driving to work and hit 295295[emoji28]

Horrible picture, but I was driving at the time...https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...bc06515e54.jpg

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:thumbup:

Just crossed 210000 in the E61 wagon on a day trip to Houston last weekend. Didn't grab a pic though. :dunno: Drove great after rebuilding the entire front end. Feels like a fresh Bimmer and turned in 25.25mpg.

Side note: I finally started working on my E30. And man... does it hurt finally looking at an acquired vehicle closely. Already put about $1000 in orders between FCP, ECS, Ebay, and all the other parts sources. Including new odometers gears for the cluster so I can take cool pictures like you Prop. ;)


Feel a bit like Sisyphus owning all these old BMW's...

Take some time with Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus. My daughter's senior speech centered on the point at which Sisyphus reached the top. Camus argues it was then that his work was realized. His mission complete. His reason of being fulfilled.

And so it is. When the great stone of the E53 rolls back to the valley. We know one thing: The hilltop, however brief, is in front of us. :thumbup:

Getting into trouble, always hurts! LoL.. I should know, my little mechanized girl friend has put me to the test!

I know one thing, I’m gonna keep banging dem gears mang!


E53 RiPPeR
XOuTPoST jUNkiE
ReVELaTiON 22:21

Fresh oil change and backed into the garage to avoid a thunderstorm. :cool:

When I first saw backed into three garage I was anticipating a photo with bumper damage. Glad that I realized you meant option 1 not 2:

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Keep those miles coming. Avoid deer.

Indeed great advice! :thumbup:


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Up next, either a fuel pump or valve cover gasket. I keep topping it off every 500+ miles. It doesn't burn oil. I see oil residue on the valve cover and intake areas. Will oil leaks ever stop?
Miles definitely going on. Next, a hitch for Austin tailgaters to hit "into".

rear-end defenses against tailgaters
 

I agree with your desire for a barrier defense mounted to your X5, in Austin traffic (it was already bad even in the 60-70's, when I'd go down to party on 6th street, occasionally). And, as a 58-year veteran of the DFW traffic wars (I had a long daily commute of 120+ miles, round-trip, from SW to NE across seven cities in three counties...Tarrant, Dallas,Collin...for over thirty of those years), I consider myself fortunate to never have been rear-ended in the chaos of the particularly bad Dallas traffic. I've had many vehicles nearly get me, but noticed that they were actually more respectful of my rear bumper, when I commuted with a truck, bearing a receiver hitch, shank, and ball.

I have a large Weight-Distributing hitch mounted to the receiver hitch on the back of my '04 Chevy 2500HD, that I use mostly for camping, pulling my home-built 4'x8' squareback trailer. I leave it on there (secured with a locking device) year-round, since I hardly ever get tailgaters willing to come too close.

I also had another WD hitch on my wife's '98 GMC, but she sold her 20' trailer, and didn't need the hitch anymore (and she kept hitting her shins on it, when loading or unloading her gardening supplies from the truck bed), so I removed it. I could put it on the X5, but it weighs a ton, but I might, if I ever tow with the X5 (already have a receiver, a regular ball & shank, and 4-way wiring, but no wiring for the 7-way and trailer brakes I'd need, to use with my 4x8 camping trailer). She seldom drives her truck, anyway.

As we're both retired (me, now nearing 74, then at 65.5, after 50.5 years of work...and the wife, then at 51, after a fraction of my time, retiring just because I did!), we hardly ever need to brave the insane rush-hour traffic we? once did, but even in the afternoon traffic in our once-semi-rural area. The population of the six main communities we most frequently drive through...Mansfield, Rendon, Kennedale, Crowley, Burleson, & Arlington (south of I-30), is probably now approaching 300K, 2-3x what it was 31 years ago, when we moved here. And the number of cars, and cars with idiot drivers behind the wheel, has grown proportionately. Only some of us old-timers try to "drive friendly":
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• 1) like pulling to the side on two lane highways, to let a faster driver pass
• 2) only using the left lane to pass,on four lane highways
• 3) leaving the proper space between cars at stoplights "You should stop at a distance from the car in front of you where you can still see where their rear tires touch the pavement", etc.

So, X5chemist, I'd suggest putting on your X5, either

• 1) a WD hitch,
• 2) a single-spear carrier for round hay bales...my father-in-law was pulled over by DPS in Hood County, for driving through Granbury with his hay spear still attached to his truck (I guarantee no-one was tailgating him),
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• 3) or a hitch receiver-mounted cargo carrier, static or fold-up
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I used to leave my tail rack on my X5 but on the new one it makes parking sensor go mad every time I reverse.

That said I leave my tow hook in the front when parking in Chicago no new dents in my license plate since!


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The spear is genius. Need one for the front too.

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Do baby spears count? This is my front mounted Chicago parking defense.

I'm about to hit 200,000mi and that old bitch does not leak a drop of anything.

She does burn about 1L every 1,500mi. Not unusual for that mileage, and no visible smoke.

My Ram truck has this Austin traffic stopper. Works as a fourth light at night. Brake light and turn signal during the day. Once a hitch is installed, I'll get another. I'll use it as a bike carrier. My bike carrier will to clamp on it. I need some liquid Gorilla clue to fix the LED tape lights. The replacement tape LED lights are better. However, the glue is not.

Just over 200 thousand.
5 door handle's.
two drive shafts.
engine nothing replaced.
dash out for blower motor.
Ac fan.
both steering linkages need doing.had them
for a couple of years must do it soon.
runs out of fuel on 1/4 tank.
changed every bush and ball joint on the front.
Trans slips in the winter if i start from cold but too
scared to do a service on it.i leave it for 2 mins before
driving and its fine.
Done a spring conversion on the rear.

It has never let me down and would not part with it.

Fixing the siphon jet so you can use the bottom 1/4 of a tank is not difficult.

You say the transmission slips when cold it's possible it just seems like it. It will stay in first gear for much higher than normal when cold I think it does that on purpose to warm the transmission. When you preheat the motor I think the transmission will get preheating from the input side of the torque converter spinning. Or perhaps the transmission cooler tstat opens when the coolant temp gets hot enough than that warms vs. cools the trans fluid.

I know with our e53s we would drive when cold but just drive quite slow for the first mile or two while the transmission was warning up.

On my way to work, hit 22k+ miles since purchase. Fresh oil and running great. Time to fill up. Max miles between fill ups is 225-250 miles. :thumbup:

Need some time to install a hitch, OEM repaired left front regulator, and valve cover gasket.

I'll never tire of the golden orange og bmw color. Wife's F10 goes white during the day but is more red than the OG color. I read they figured out the best wavelength to be most visible but not affect night vision.

In the Navy we would "rig for red" and flip all the instruments to red from white at night in case we had to surface we'd have useful night vision.

That was more red than orange but the whole room was also lit red.

Red is the shortest wavelength of visible light. I miss it in my 4.8, but the 4.4 has it. I also like the sweeping mpg gauge. Wholly useless and mostly inaccurate, but sooo satisfying to watch it sweep across the bottom of the dial. I miss that in the 4.8 as well.

Shouldn't be too long now till 190k. C'moooonn 200!

Got any experience with bright LEDs that you recommend? I wanna glue or otherwise affix some to the new bike rack. I am looking for amber turn signals, brake and tail lights. My vision is to have the same lights across all the trays. Here it is with three tray affixed.

Love seeing the v8s in these high numbers. N62 prob the last v8 that can do the high range. N63 has too many obstacles in it's way. Mostly the regular maintenance that's never done because it requires engine removal!

I love the latter iterations of the motor but I wouldn't own one unless I had a lift and a spare car.

I like and use the swing mpg gauge. I will watch it while climbing hills and bump cruise control down 1mph when the sweep drops to 20 and repeat unitil I crest the hill or hit 5-6 mph drop. On the way down the hill I'll speed up 1mph every time it gets higher than 30.

Using that method I've been able to bump mpg on a 300 mile trip from about 21 to 23 (11% better).

With my new X5 and n55 motor I've been able to bump a typical 24 up to 26-27 Also 11-12.5% gain.

It's really not difficult and if there are enough lanes to not cause a traffic jam I'll do it pretty often.

My best effort was 27mpg on a full tank!

(Over 600 miles range!)

I typically get about 550 highway so an extra 50 miles on a tank when the hills play in my favor and I don't have traffic behind me to slow down.


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instrument panel orange
 

I've owned my '01 X5 for just over 3 years now, and have never driven it at night (though I check all lighting for functionality), and thus haven't really experienced the orange glow from the instrument panel, yet. It isn't appreciable in daylight, testing the lights.


I bought an '88 Pontiac Fiero for my wife many years ago (she wanted a Corvette, since a friend had one, but the used Fiero made her happy, for awhile), and it had red lighting on the instruments. I didn't do much night-driving in it, but having never viewed "red" lighting before, it was pretty neat. I'm sure the BMW orange will be better!

Take it out just for fun and a true test of headlights. Enjoy the neon glow from the headliner and door that lets you see your hand on total darkness


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The amber/orange glow is my favorite dash lighting color. I won't buy an aftermarket head unit for any of my vehicles unless they can replicate that color on their buttons or display. :thumbup:

Edit: This is a mileage thread so I should at least add mine. Just got back from an overnight Houston trip and am just shy of 134k miles.

Fine. Make me want the sweeper that much worse. Dammit. :(

about to hit 120,000 !

no leaks. paint is great. runs perfect other than slightly low idle. headliner is absolute TRASH. door handle carriers starting to go. door cars come to pieces when taking off. interior was MINT until a few weeks ago when muriatic acid from the pool store ruined the leather on the rear passenger seat.

my last e53 went past 200 with ZERO headliner issues. this one just falls off by itself. but the old one started shedding paint at 120. factory defect style.

Saw double zeros and took a pic. :bmw:
Quick pick on Texas Austin's autobahn.
I had to relearn how to set the cruise control. :wow:
Reset the MPG to see what it would read. Ran out of toll road first. MPGs were still going up.

as a public service for fellow elderly viewers (that need new glasses)
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CTRL (key) and scroll up. Zoom! Ha! Thanks! I couldn't crop it to fit for uploading. Cruise set to 80 MPH was no problem. It was cruising nice and steady. I kept an eye open on the temp gauge. It was running great until I merged onto I35. Speed was down to 45 MPH. :mad:

Got another ~800 miles or so this weekend. Taking the bikes to a Saturday and Sunday ride as we drop off our little Sophomore to college.

Bonus points for live capture while driving. Not the easiest and literally taking a risk for the shot. Much harder at night so you lucked out a bit there

Most of my mileage shots in this thread are taken under load. I should get bonus points for snapping a pic while stopped. If it ever happens. :D

The stopped ones only count as special if you land at a special odo count at your destination.

:D

About to hit 200K in a month or three. I'll try to video the event. Safely!

Do some math and reset your trip odometer to add some 2s and 0s


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Just got back from a 3400-mile road trip from Austin TX -> Rockville MD and back, and hit this fortuitous number in the 05 X5. Car ran great ... really feels like the engine is just starting to get broken in on this ol' gal. Hope to see many more big numbers down the road. :-)

Only saw one other E53 on the road and that was puttering around DC, not on the highway.

Chris
2005 X5 M54 (Black)
2002 X5 M54 (Silver)

Soon.

Sweet! Jump on a toll road! Hit 100 MPH for 200,000!

It's my goal!

getting older & slower
 

I know my limitations...I've set my goals accordingly. My next mileage goal is 212,212 @ 12 mph.

Just hit 300k on the highway this morning. I tried to get a picture while slowing down but traffic screwed me and sadly out of the 9 pic's this was the clearest.... [emoji26][emoji26]

I even blew it up and couldn't clean it up anymore than this.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...fa5baf3f7b.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8104bbe1ef.jpg

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If this thing could even hit 100mph, the never-opened M54 would fly apart with that 5-speed tractor gearing.

Mine had no problem up to about 105. Higher needed a hill.

Oh it can hit it and then some with the 5 speed. Trust me.. LoL…


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You aren't stock 3.0i though. I'm curious how your plant compares to N52 and N55. Are you super charge?!

Definitely not stock! LoL.. :D

Alcohol blown brotha!

And Mr. Wynn, I hope you know I mean no disrespect. This board in my opinion would be incomplete without you.


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Maybe YOURS would! 🤣

The march continues

That's a nice round number! Congrats

Yesterday I put a note on a derelict 4.6 near me that my Indy tipped me off about. The poor car is in rough shape and looks like it hasn't moved in several years. Hopefully this isn't because the motor blew up and spread metal throughout its internals. I need 4.6 cams and springs for my motor rebuild project, and I wouldn't mind having the 4.6 specific 5HP24 to swap into my X5 some day. It does look like it has many, many miles on it though.

Are you using an extension for the 1up? How did you get it to sit that far back from the bumper?

270,000 kms, 2005 4.4i

Yes. It is the swing away adapter. Really nice for loading into or out of the rear hatch with bikes.

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It is a really nice, but I bet it is super expensive on top of the already super duper expensive 1up :wow:

Yeah. It's not cheap, but it's been great being able to help people get to our training rides who otherwise would not have a way to get there. I am hopeful to carry mine and three others to our goal ride at the end of this month. It'll be a 50 miler (for me). Others will do a century. I am not there, yet. :wow:

Just hit 260k km (162k ml) and the X is doing better than ever. Rear shocks are next on the list.

56,840 miles /91,080 kms! Why I am not getting rid of it ��

low-mileage, barely-driven
 

Your signature shows that you had 51k miles on it, as of 10-25-2015, and now, 107 months later, you've only added 5840 miles to that. That's only 54.5 miles per month!

I had believed that I was driving mine less than everybody else, at 67.5 miles per month over nearly 40 months, but yours gets the prize for least driven (unless it's only a garage queen, which shouldn't count). Though I have other vehicles, the X5 is my choice to drive, whenever I do actually drive (my wife likes to drive in her Lexus, because she thinks the X5's seats are too hard, though I like them better than those in her '14 Lexus ES350...which I've only been allowed to drive once).

However, I sometimes drive one or more of our three back-up vehicles, hauling stuff too long or large for the X5 ('09 HHR Panel, '98 GMC 1500, and '04 Chevy 2500HD), but the X5 is large enough for most shopping trips. Last week, I drove the X5 140+ miles, but also the GMC 80 miles...the most I'd driven in the past 8.75 years, since retirement, in one week. I'm sure that if I only drove the X5, it'd have a coupla more miles on it, by now.

But, at 212704 miles, and in fine working condition (appearance-wise, not so much, having never been garaged by any of the three owners...I'm #3), I'm in no great hurry to add too many more miles on the X, anyway.

"The name's Bond... "

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2004 M57N 30D
348 k Kms
216 k miles

Left it parked for 18 months and haven't touched it, fired it right up with a new battery, washed it off, carrying on like a champ!

Passed the evil mark with only one light. Added air and reset the light. 38 PSI is a little stiff for driving. It bounces all over the place. I was at a friend's house. I'll use my hand held inflator to lower pressure just a bit. :p:

...as of about four hours ago.

Sweet achievement! On to the next 100k!

Sweet! Congrats!

3/14/2025
204,000 miles
Build Date 10/12/2005

Recently turned over 288,000 miles. 12k to my goal of 300,000.

mileage, wear and tear
 

Updating my earlier post, six months later...I wrote down the wrong mileage (working from my senior memory), and it was either actually at 211704 miles (not 212704), back in Sept., or my odometer is running backwards, as it now reads 211910 miles!

I haven't been driving much at all, during the last six months (except for a couple of trips to the ranch, at 80+ miles each, and a few short trips to the store, inspection station, and the tax office (voting and car registration renewals), due to:

• 1) my wife loves driving her Lexus more than riding in my X5 (seats are too hard!),
• 2) I was really sick from Xmas until just recently, and would sometimes get into coughing fits, so I thought it wise to not drive at those times, and
• 3) I tore the Piriformis muscle in my hip, on Dec.23, and because it affected my walking, it was followed by peroneal tendonitis in my leg (both on my right side), so it is uncomfortable (to say the least) to sit and drive.

So, since I swapped cars for the X5 in May of 2021, I've only driven it 1902 miles (but with untold hours of idling, while testing and workingonit) i.e. 211910 miles, as of today, minus 210908 miles, when I first got it, equals 1902 miles.That works out to be only averaging 1.644 miles per day, overall, racked up by me. For the life of the X5, 8646 days so far (since 7-13-2001), it's only averaged 24.51 miles per day.

At this rate, it may outlast me (at 27200 days, and counting).

Quad 8's.

With the obligatory TPMS error that went away at the next startup. I will NOT miss that about my old friend. He insists it's called 'character' and 'charm.' :rolleyes:

I fear this is the last of these for me and Ole Blue. The Unicorn awaits some caliper seals and the underride protection install. Today I made the most defined step toward a replacement that is NOT The Toaster (F25):

A Donington Gray F95. :slap: I know, I know. But it only has 25k miles! And, and... it's PRETTY! And, and I got a job! :popcorn:

312,212 last week...[emoji28]https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e374fb8d56.jpg

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Too bad you didn't reset trip 100 sooner!


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Not recent but how nice of mother nature for the helping hand!https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...43c5036d0c.jpg

I was trying to figure out if that second number was a Trip odometer or the temperature


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[emoji1787] it's spring here so the temperature only hits 100f

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I have 2 E53 X5 models. Both 2003 vintage. The red rocket 4.6is has 70K. I have the parts to: valve cover swap ( Aluminum jobs this time!,Lemforder control arms,both left and right mirrors, 2 new front speakers,

For the stick shift 3.0, I have exactly 140K. PO was really good at maintaining the X5.
Have parts to : Front drive shaft boots, both Tie rods, the drivers window is stuck down, and my outside door handle is jacked up. I swapped out non heated for a set of heated front seats. It does get cold here. I have a whistle sound somewhere in the intake system. Every once in a while I get a left and right bank lean condition light.
I bought all the parts to do an intake-ectomy. Now that I have tried a 3.0 engine, that is my preference for X5 engines. Sadly, BMW has never built a reliable V8 engine.
IMHO.

Smoke test your intake. It's much faster than just swapping parts. The first part to look at is the rubber intake elbow. The small tube leading off that to the idle control valve often cracks.

+1 for the smoke test. You can get smoke machines that aren't too expensive. Allows you to take your time and find leaks methodically rather than use the parts cannon (or spraying carb cleaner all over the place while the engine is running).

Every three-point oh I worked on, I needed to fix the seal on the dis valv every three-point all I worked on, I needed to fix the seal on the disa valve. rather than source, the crazy gasket I just used fast tape Teflon tape.

Gettin' close
 

I'm gettin' close ladies and gentlemen...

I'll hit 317k by June 5th [emoji28]

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Miles or kilometers?

Kilometers = 196,974 miles

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getting to drive the X again, woohoo!
 

My wife just told me that we need to take my X5 to the mom-in-law's ranch this Sunday, since the old woman (at 84) has even more trouble than I (at 74) getting in and out of my wife's beloved Lexus ES350. We're taking her to a family event, and she requested the X5. It came as a surprise, since we ALWAYS take the Lexus (not my choice).

So, the X5's mileage should reach 342.5k by June 1. That equals 212250 miles, in the US.

322,000 should be the near goal or maybe 322,222 km 200219 miles.

321098 and 765 trip if you reset it just right


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Old but quite a favorite! Awesome how mother nature played along!

[emoji106]

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I'm no longer my mom-in-law's favorite driver (after 32 years)
 

Took the X5, as promised, and after a 101 mile turn-around, the mileage now stands at 212040. As usual, I had previously guessed wrong on my mileage in other posts, so I wrote it down this time.

I've had the X for 1486 days and 2031 miles, equalling 1.367 miles per day.

Oh, here's another thing about the mom-in-law transport trip. We left the ranch late, due to one of her great-grandsons failing to get there in time to go with us, and I was urged to drive fast (as a confirmed lead-foot and dragstrop 'champeen', I don't need much encouragement). The old lady and my wife were shouting different directions at me (I should've used Google Maps), so I had to make some quick manuevers at critical last-minute turns, and the old lady was not appreciative, I guess, and decided to use her other daughter for return transportation to the ranch. I'm not the designated driver of choice anymore...OK by me.

Otherwise, despite not feeling well all day, I enjoyed driving the X5 again (still one of the best rides I've had), and even the wife liked the trip home, in 38F A/C, with her seat reclined. I've tried that in the passenger seat of her Lexus, and decided that I must see the road and can't snooze, like she can.

Fully loaded with 4 passengers and doing 80+ MPH on the Austin autobahn, I missed the 170,000 mile rollover. :D
273588.48 km :bmw:

Oil and filter change. Tire rotation. Cabin filter. All due this week. :thumbup: