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Oh no, I recently bought my son a '02 3.0i! lol. It cost 600 bucks, the guy was literally leaving the country the next day and just needed to off load it. I couldn't resist! Runs/drives/looks amazing. Of course, drivers door handle didn't work but was very cheap to fix. Such a nice car. Now I'm wondering if it's going to be a series of never ending snags, one after the other.
Umm.. this was going to be my first car but uh…. Yeah Im not sure anymore 😅
Hello to all you folk who continue to pay for your mechanics house extension. Must be supple from all that bending over. Adieu, suckers!
I have a 2001 E53 4.4 and my rear air suspension failed. I can't believe that no one that I have seen in the comments have gone down the same path as me and out right deleted the always failing air suspension and gone with coil springs. That is now never a problem I have to face again!
I also have deleted the cats in mine and soon the rear muffler to straight pipe.
My x5 3.0d 2006 never fails me! I had serviced some stuff, but it's normal for a 17 years old car. Mine is 300k+ and rock-steady 🙂
How about donating one of these POS cars to a a local food bank or the Red Cross? I'd love to see how the whole donation process works. Great episode as always.
Never see those around anymore now I know why lol
I can tell he hates that BMW TRUCK..Str8 PTSD😂😂😂
It's October 17, 2023, I received a X5, 2006, for free with 155k miles….
I've never paid a mechanic in my 12 years of owning vehicles. I'm use to doing the work myself. But this is new because it's the first foreign vehicle I've own.
i think i bought my 04 3.0 e53 when this came out and im currently sitting at 405k all ive done in the 3yrs was the brake booster and a brake line its been running mint since
I bought a 2003 X5 with the 4.4 back in 2018. I paid $2.4K for it with a possible bad transmission. It was in fact toasted, so I had it rebuilt by a well known shop in the S.F. Bay Area for $4.7K. I've had a variety of stuff go wrong with it since owning it, most of which I've been able to fix myself. Outside of stuff that requires 'coding', which I'm hesitant to try on my own, it's pretty easy to work on. One item I took note of in particular were the air bags. Arnott makes replacements that are regarded as being better than the originals and cost $200.00/pair. They are amazingly easy to change; I just did mine for preventative maintenance. There are some upgraded aftermarket parts available for some things, like the plastic clips on the window regulators, and some simple mods to improve other items, like the door handle carriers. But if there's ONE THING you really want to get in front of on these, it's the timing chain guides on the M62TU engines, like I have in my '03. When the pandemic hit and all the shops were doing all they could to get business, I had mine done, along with a bunch of other stuff on the engine. The timing chain guides are one item that if they even start to go bad, the engine can grenade pretty quickly. It's not like the valve guide seal issue on the later engines where it just runs bad. Broken timing chain guide pieces on the M62TU can clog the oil pump pickup and starve the engine of oil, destroying it. Or, if the pieces are small enough, get into the oiling system and destroying it at the component level. Either way, it's something you want to do every 100K miles. Do I like this car? For an SUV it's ok. Definitely better than anything else out there as far looks go. But mechanically I think the Mercedes ML series of the same era has to be better, though they're kinda fugly.
My 2006 X5 3.0i has >200k and still only minor repairs. Like VW, Audi, Volvos etc., take care of them, and they take care of you.
Mines almost 20 years and everything just keeps breaking. I want my Lexus back. Fml. 🙃
Best suv of all time hoovie is trippin