What a Hedacke! what dealership did this?

Mine had the cracked cowl and the injectors had little rust on them when bought at 100k miles but when running a injector test in Rheingold "smooth running control " everything is within spec.

so i don't think cracked cowl or even rust on the injectors indicates damage. what he should have done is run a test for the injectors. prompted by the visual evidence of the cracked cowl.

good thing about injectors is that unlike emissions components, when you get a code for an injector. it's dead certain it's the injector.

Thanks for closing the loop. Sorry to hear too, but very glad you protected/fought for yourself!

1. Repair and maintenance history
2. Mechanic that can connect to the car, pull BMW data to see any codes, pending codes, when last cleared, etc. Dont know if iCarly can.
3. IMO you will be better prepared than 99.9% of buyers, next time around

GL on the hunt

I second everything that ard said plus-

4. Go speak to Jarek in Ontario, Canada at www.chiptuning.ca to remove 95% of the usual issues with these cars. They are great people to deal with, tuned and cloned my DDE(s)

Funny you should mention Jarek because his shop is shop #2 in my "story" and he will most definitely be the person I take the next X5 I'm looking at to for a complete inspection. He definitely knows his $hit and everyone at his shop is very friendly and helpful.