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A huge amount depends on how many and the kind of previous keepers it has had and also of course the mileage, history and whether it's a diesel or petrol. If it happens to be a looker then it can also have had too many impulse owners who then find they don't like the servicing costs so skimp on maintenance, then again you might have found a 2 owner diesel 62k minter which has full mix of dealer and independent stamps :) which considering it would never have been off roaded will make a fantastic car, useless in snow and ice of course but £700 spent on quality winter tyres will fix that and you will not be able to tell the difference in ride or noise either.

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A huge amount depends on how many and the kind of previous keepers it has had and also of course the mileage, history and whether it's a diesel or petrol. If it happens to be a looker then it can also have had too many impulse owners who then find they don't like the servicing costs so skimp on maintenance, then again you might have found a 2 owner diesel 62k minter which has full mix of dealer and independent stamps :) which considering it would never have been off roaded will make a fantastic car, useless in snow and ice of course but £700 spent on quality winter tyres will fix that and you will not be able to tell the difference in ride or noise either.

+1. Well said.

 

Assuming it's a diesel automatic, then expect 25-27 mpg. Petrol 3.0, 20-21. Bigger petrol engine, 15 mpg.

The only other really biggy with these is the auto box. BMW did 'sealed for life' boxes at this time, which was a huge mistake. A lot of independent specialists will change the gearbox oil, needs checking to see if it's been done, and been done properly.

 

Always assume with a car of this complexity that the seller is getting rid because there is a major problem / expense looming.

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A huge amount depends on how many and the kind of previous keepers it has had and also of course the mileage, history and whether it's a diesel or petrol. If it happens to be a looker then it can also have had too many impulse owners who then find they don't like the servicing costs so skimp on maintenance, then again you might have found a 2 owner diesel 62k minter which has full mix of dealer and independent stamps :) which considering it would never have been off roaded will make a fantastic car, useless in snow and ice of course but £700 spent on quality winter tyres will fix that and you will not be able to tell the difference in ride or noise either.

 

Small correction ref price of winter tyres, make that around 25% cheaper as it won't need run flats.

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Don't do it, I'm pretty sure it's the same engine and box as my diesel range. I'm in the process of chopping my car in as the box is starting to **** up and a specialist want around £3000 to fix it.

Forgot to mention this is a very common problem with this so called sealed for life gearbox

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I owned a 54 plate 3.0 D Sport...cost me a kings ransom, nearly 4.5k in mechanical bills over 18 months. Nice car to drive but far too many problems.

Older X5's suffer from a lot of electrical niggles due to ageing wiring looms and daft connectors, typical air suspension faults, seizing brake calipers, poor electrical connections for lighting clusters and if you're really lucky like I was you will blow the gearbox!

 

The torque convertors are greatly undersized for the motor and once past 80k miles then there is a great probability that the torque converter will **** itself and spit metal right back through the auto box.

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My 3.5 yr old 520d series diesel blew the engine - piston or crankshaft last year at around 100k miles. So I'd be very cautious with an older BMW....

 

Still, plenty of people have them but I wouldn't personally take the risk.

 

I also saw somewhere recently a reliability survey and the X5 was in the bottom 10 out of around 110 cars.

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Slightly off topic, I had an E46 320DSE Touring in the early 2000's and the engine was raved over at the time. Then the swirl flaps started failing causing considerable damage to people's engines. I thought the later series 2 litre engines were redesigned to prevent it happening don't think it was a problem on the 3 litre diesels.

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Slightly off topic, I had an E46 320DSE Touring in the early 2000's and the engine was raved over at the time. Then the swirl flaps started failing causing considerable damage to people's engines. I thought the later series 2 litre engines were redesigned to prevent it happening don't think it was a problem on the 3 litre diesels.

It was also a problem on the 3.0 litres as fitted in 7, 5, 3 series, X5 and X3.

 

The same 3.0d (called the TD6) engine fitted in the Range Rover didn't have the swirl flaps fitted. It did still have the same autobox though.

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