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Hello Everyone From The Greydog

Greydog
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Hi everyone after selling the horse lorry we needed a car capable of pulling a horse box. One of my hobbies is shooting so AWD is a bonus, most of my friends advised Range Rover or Disco.

A month ago I purchased an X5 4.4 2001 with low miles and a full history, it has a few scratches that I will get seen too and the drivers seat bolster needs replacing at some time (common problem on every car I looked at regardless of make) but then my backside is on it so I tend not to notice it much.

The doubters have told me X5's are nowhere near as good off road as a Range Rover, but as I have pointed out a muddy gateway is as bad as it will get with the horse box or a farm track when shooting.

So after 1 month of ownership I am really pleased with my X5 everything works apart from the TV (why are BMW so expensive with an upgrade to digital). Fuel consumption is OK for the size of the beast so looking forward to a good spell of BMW ownership.

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    your mates are right.land rovers are by far the best 4x4's going but an x5 wasnt designed for that.its a luxury car for roads......the moms love them for the school run too.grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :P

    welcome to bmwoc mate

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    Welcome mate

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    Welcome, Glad to hear your enjoying your new car, enjoy the forum.

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    Thanks for the welcome Guys.

    Well I just spent 4 days shooting on the Woodhead, 4 guys all the kit and 2 dogs almost 600 miles round trip without a hitch. Up on the tops the going on some parts was shall we say "pretty snotty" and we just followed the keepers 110 Defender without any problems at all.

    So the smile is bigger.

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