I'm out!
 

It's bittersweet for me to say this, but after a year of owning my X5, it's going to be gone next week! I just picked up a Tesla Model S yesterday and Tesla's third party trade in company is picking up my X5 on Monday. This community is great and extremely helpful, but I flat out HATE my X5. It is literally the worst car we've had (and we've both had a V10 M5 and M6).

But looking on the bright side, my horribly unreliable X5 wasn't a complete waste of time and money. I have learned so much about working on cars during this year of ownership. I have gone from letting dealerships and performance shops work on my cars exclusively to tackling most things myself (such as installing an ESS VT2-650 supercharger on my wife's car this weekend :D).

Thank you everyone on here for all the help this past year! I'm sure I'll be back on this forum sooner than later as my wife is probably going to take the Tesla when the baby comes next year allowing me to get F1x X5/X6 :) ).

Also a word of advice to everyone, don't be afraid to work on your car and if you're stuck on something don't be afraid to ask for help! If I managed to learn this much about cars in one year anyone can do it!

Thanks and happy motoring!!!!
Art

Also here is the Tesla in case anyone wanted to see. (I'm not stealing electricity in the picture, I own the building)

It will be a relief for us too ;)
I mean,I dont own a building,only 5 BMWs,one is a race car,and I dont complain much.Yours must have been a real nightmare :dunno:

:wavey:

I was so hoping nobody would post a damn word...

It sucks that these cars are such problems. It's the only dam suv/sav that I like

The OP has a fine azz stable, so I suspect he will get over owning that X...

Every brand has some dawgs: we had a 2003 Honda CR-V. It was the worst car I have owned in 52+ years of cars, going all the way back to some junkers I owned as kid/young man, in the '60s. It was my CEO's car and she reminded me of its utter lack of quality and reliability daily.

I posted my litany of problems once, on a CR-V board, (a really fun forum :rolleyes:, ), and one would have thought I was making fun of the Pope or Mom, or...

NEway, they are all just cars; some are more fun and/or less problems/livable with than others.

ard: you crack me up! I was thinking similarly. ;)
GL, mD

but is it bad etiquette to be plugging in wherever you can find outlets in public spaces?

^^^ OP wrote that he owns the building...it's his juice.