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X5 Auto Gearbox Problems, Truth Or Myth??

Roger Chatfield
in BMW X5 Series Forum

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Greetings all, I'm currently looking at getting a X5 3.0D, my brother-in-law has a 3.0i and I must admit I'm very impressed with it and am now a total convert.

I've seen a lot of bad press on the interweb reference the auto gearbox with some real horror stories, as I'm looking at getting a car with about 120,000 miles on it have I got any real worries or is it all internet hype??

Many thanks

Rog.

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    Mine went at 95,000 and was told by BMW macanic I was lucky to get that out of it also rear subframe bushes only have an 85,000 life span so check to make sure these have been done as that's can be a £450 job sorry to be negative but I found out the hard way and ended up selling a X5 that I paid 10k for to the polish for 4k

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