It's been a month and some change so I thought i'd provide an update. The car has* been running great...until yesterday. As I was waiting to pull into a parking spot I smelled transmission fluid. Pulled into my spot and sure enough there was a trail of fluid. Not wanting to risk driving the car and wrecking the transmission I called the tow truck and had the X5 towed to the dealer. By the time the tow truck arrived there was a healthy pool of fluid. Having bought the fluid at BMW (using my CCA discount luckily) I would say it was about $50 worth, lol. Stuff is liquid gold.

For those of you that followed this thread while I was doing the repairs a month ago you may recall that ultimately I had to take the car to the dealer to have them resolve the trans sleeve installation that there was a BMW internal TSB on. In order to the perform that job they had to drop the pan so THANKFULLY they were the last ones to touch the transmission. That means if it has sprung a leak it will hopefully be on them. They'll get it up on the lift tomorrow. We'll see what they say....

Andy

There is a tightening sequence when re-installing the pan just like in re-installing a cylinder head. Hopefully they followed that sequence when they made the repair. Sequence can be found in my previous post in the pdf.

I remember following it :) hopefully they did...

Turns out it wasn't the trans. It was the transfer case.

Anyways, enough was enough on owning the car out of warranty. I was at the point if spending $3-4k a year on maintenance.

Since we own another suv (Chevy Tahoe) I traded the X in on a car I've had my eye on for a long time. A 2013 335i Sedan with the M Sport Package. Picked it up yesterday. It's an awesome car!

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