Originally Posted by eskaeone (Post 948342)

Well, first My key fob stopped working, so I had to manually lock/unlock the my 2001 X5. then one day the lock cylinder broke and actually came out attached to the key!..lol ahhh you gotta appreciate the love/hate relationship.
I got it figured out now, hopefully the prices on Realoem.com are accurate and I can go buy a new key and a new cylinder without having to pay as much money that I thought I had to. I want to buy a new cylinder, my old one is in pieces and I dont really want to fix it just to have it fail again. I hate the entire design of these doors that come on the X5's from the window regulators, to the door locks, to the freakin cylinders, that whole design sucks. sorry had to rant a bit.