Here's Why You Should NEVER EVER Buy A Cheap BMW X5
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Johnny’s happy face after removing the cats is priceless.
"I think it will sound like a Chevy"
16:36
Probably not everyday he gets to hack off parts.
How many people come into his BMW shop and ask for straight pipes?
I think he was happy cuz he didn't have to fix the mofo
Johnny's shop is immaculate. The floor is washed clean daily by BMW owner tears.
I do IT work for a numerous auto repair shops. The BMW and Mercedes Benz shops are ALWAYS immaculate!
Fact.
Dont buy a car if you cant afford to maintain it...
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Loved my 4.6is I owned for a year. The few days it worked was absolutely glorious
the 4.6 is an amazing car if its been looked after, if not it can be very expensive and a money pit , but if your lucky enough and get a good one its is well worth it, though it is thirsty.
I love that there is an X5 on the lift in front of them while Hoovie is discussing his own X5
The sound of that thing with straight pipes is AMAZING.
They said straight pipes but I'm pretty sure they just removed the exaust. It's more like "no pipes"
pizzamon 79 same difference
So does approximately every engine with more than 4 cylinders
never knew about the 4.4 v8 til a day ago when a E60 550i passed us with straight pipes on highway... OH MY GOD the sound was amazing! sounds so much beefier than a lil 4.4!
@@sidewaysfoxbody Jesus, what size engine you consider big?
"$1000, so basically... no money!" said the pathologic car buying addict
Scrap value for a running BMW X5 is probably around 1200 so he’s making money
@@porsche928s5 Plus the youtube revenue from this video.
He cut the cats as thats where a lot of the real value lies in the precious metals.
Like the lyric in the Steely Dan song "Babylon Sisters".. "Like a weekend in TJ, its cheap, but its not free".
no money = paid off from a basic yt video
Yeah, I've owned 3 x5s. Loved all three, really safe cars in high altitude snow country, and traded them all in at 100k. No issues at all. None. I maintained them. I took care of them. Totally reliable. The car you featured showed all the signs of being ridden hard and put away wet too many times. Abused (by the previous owner and then by you.) But let me be clear. Having driven the BMW X5 for over 300k miles over the past 15 years, they are amongst the best cars I've ever driven or owned. But we all know they are expensive to repair.
Yeah the "gotcha" there is ditching all 3 at 100k miles.
the problem is the ignorant driver that doesn't know how to take care of his car...look at him screaming like a lunatic while peeling off any car can get damaged like that.
@@KiraSlith 100%
My friend told me X5 is not reliable. Are you sure your X5 is reliable?
As a x5 owner, these cars are not for the faint of heart. If you have BMW software like dis,inpa and sss it’s not terrible. But a lot of really bad parts/design. The window regulator clips are a total joke, the nav lcd screen always fails, typical passenger occupancy sensor failure… my favorite is the heating pads in the seat that create hot spots that burn holes in the seat/burn you. That was a nice touch
"They make BMW's smell like wallets too remind you how much money you're going to spend on it"
~Lemon Aide Used Car Guide.
😂🤣
All I got was a firm handshake when I graduated from high school
You were lucky to have a handshake, ...
... our Dad and our mother would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing 'Hallelujah.'
Why would graduating from High school be awarded with anything other than a "well done" pat on the back, if that. let alone buying your kid a car lol
i left my graduation and had to bounce to my shift at work lol
@@AffidavidDonda Lol
i got "get a job" the easy life is over and no car ever from my parents!!!!!!!!!!!
Whenever you see a pair of aftermarket wheels on a bmw, you better just steer clear of that whole ordeal, because believe it, it’s going to be expensive.
Exactly what I thought. Those cheap wheels say it all
Edit.. Whenever you get involved with any car that BMW designed or built in the last twenty years, you just better steer clear, cos you know its gonna be an expensive ordeal
I see that so often and say to myself "that guy is driving a lesson learned" . I shake my head when I see a beat up old car with new wheels on the side of the road as that money could have kept that car going for another year or more, but with a BMW they "got a deal" and spent the rest on wheels ignoring or not knowing of the repair relationship with the wallet that is more than mandatory!
My M wheels had 4-6 inch cracks in 3 of 4 after 125K miles. I should have tossed the car at warranty expiration. Oh God BMW is such utter shit.
This is so true 😂😂😂
The door situation is just hilarious. Everyone comes in through one door and leaves through another
cause of the shitty metal they use on those door handles
Like a clown car at the circus😂😂😂
They’d drive that thing in Russian for Another twenty years
for sure
not only Russia
Same thing in Mexico. They'll slap a carb on that sucker and drive it another 10 years
Slab a card on a direct injection engine? Show me
@@bennyjetsaroundtheworld9047 yes a credit card.
I had an X5, and finally ended up giving it away to a friend. He hasn't spoken to me since...
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Slappy, you’re so mean!
Thanks for the laughs 🤣
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Why ? If I someone gives me something, I would be grateful !
I once bought a cheap X5, best weekend car I've had and that's exactly how long it lasted.
lol
Lmaoooooo
13 months
😂 Oh my goodness I thought was something nice until the punch line came 👏
@@JoshuaJones-si8ws OMG... I had the same problem with mine.) pure junk cars. !!
While this was a funny episode, I think it really comes down to how the previous owners maintained them. A major issue in the U.S is people simply don't keep up with the maintenance on their cars. Especially once these luxury vehicles start hitting their 3rd owners+, these owners bought the car for cheap, and didn't bother to replace or service anything that needed attention. Of course there are certainly issues with these BMWs in the mid-2000s, but how good or bad the car will be currently is all dependent on its previous history.
Thats the truth, someone who understands. My X5 cant relate to this x5 and its older and more miles.
Naah they suck if you compare to lets say a toyota. That will start everytime even with bad service.
Danny Moreno
Toyota’s start even with bad service is they are more simple damn cars. If you really really into vehicles and love your car you know. A Toyota doesn’t have thick oils, they are much simpler cars, they don’t have so much power so the parts don’t have to be so complicated. Even a Supra, Supras can’t have 1000HP without upgrading parts, the diffs, trans, oils have to be upgraded to withstand that power. BMWs mostly have ridiculous power and torque and in order for the car to handle that it needs complex parts and when the part is bad the car shuts off or gets in limp mode so it doesn’t kill itself even more. It’s bad maintenance not the car. Keep up with the car and if you can’t don’t blame the car blame yourself. This maintenance concepts applies to any BMW, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari, Lamborghini, AM, Range Rover, Rolls Royce, Dodge V8s / V10s, Chevy Performance cars, Ford performance cars and even Lexus cars need to obey this concept that these noobs don’t get when you buy higher end vehicles.
BLACK BIMMER Toyota can’t accomplish half the shit that x5 can they are nice cars that run for a short amount of time
Carter Place
I don’t get what your trying to say
My x5 3.0i has been one of my best vehicles yet. So far I’ve only experienced one broken door handle and a continuous oil leak
I honestly don't know if you are being serious or joking. Seriously... please tell me that was a joke?
Nah, I have a rare 3.0 6 speed. 200k miles and nothing out of the ordinary. The m54 is a very strong and reliable motor
Steven Wreyford Nope, no joke. I have a 3.0i as well, they last forever. About 200k miles and no engine issues. Only big fix was air suspension ride. Paint is immaculate and I updated the headlights and got wider wheels and a couple other small mods. I’m guessing I’ll get another 100k out of it if not more. Bulletproof car
LOL wait until the rear suspension takes a shit on you $$$
@@manimotard5429 it’s not the air suspension so I’m not worried
"This is a very good transmission. Very reliable." Gee, too bad the rest of the vehicle is 100% POS.
Lmfao my exact thoughts ....
You can sit on the tailgate while you're waiting for the tow truck
True.
That’s actually pretty good BMW’s attention to detail on design
Beautiful
Haha that's a joke we used to say to an old friend about his called it the AAA waiting room
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My aunt must have the decent one
It’s green and the same year with almost 200,000 miles and still going the biggest issue was the suspension but now it’s running like a champ
This is by far the funniest/most entertaining video from hoovie lol. Couldn't stop smiling when he took the cats out and it sounded like a small block chevy 😂
You should start a new series like this: “cars even Hoovie won’t buy”.
And buys all of them for the series
... again ...
Except he did buy it lol
Add the BMW M3 to that list.
But he DID buy it ... he has a calculator app that tells him how much he can spend so we clueless idiots will watch...and we will over and over.
The whole video put me off of wanting one, then when you removed the cats I now want one more than ever
Just buy literally any other V8 and straight pipe it. Assuming you legally can, of course.
Don't do it. Think with your head not emotions.
seriously the best thing you could do with one of these (or a 5 series) would be to LS swap it.
@@JethroRose BUT you'd still be stuck with the awful bmw body electrics...
BMW=Big Money Wasted
I wish I would have seen this a 4 or 5 years ago. I always loved these things and finally got to buy one that was fully loaded. I was absolutely in love with it for about 3 days. After that, I all but gave it away. It left me stranded and with all of my car knowledge, I couldn't even begin to figure it out. I lost roughly $3000 in about a week, to get it out of my sight. This was not the biggest mistake of my life, but it is certainly the one I kick myself over the most.
Your face with the loud pipes is priceless. I love the sound
I could hear Cleetus saying, "Hell yeah, brother" when the cats came off. 🤣
It sounds like ruby or Leroy haha
hulkster!! yeah brother!! and rich piana too
She's a ripper!
them there cats gone is 500+ freedom points
Too much German eagles
Buy an Aztek with tent and camp in it
Daddy Doug, good times
It would be better than the X5.
You’d be surprised to find out how good of a vehicle the Aztek actually was. I borrowed one in Detroit to run around in-it had 353,000 miles on it and I truthfully couldn’t find one thing wrong with it.
@@2W3X4YZ5 I love how ugly relatable and just cheap they are it's the perfect re-recapter your youth and have a daily driver family type car
Other than the fact that Aztek is one fugly vehicle, it is actually not a bad car.
I have a 2005 X5 E53 3.0i which iv'e had since new, it is now 2021 and it still serves me well. Since the day i purchased it, i have only experienced 2 drivers door handle replacements and 1 oil seperator replacement. It is still going strong and does not seem to want to let go of it's life. Best car i have ever owned.
X5s with the 3.0i straight six arent bad at all once you overhaul the cooling system. I love the dash layout in these and they feel so solid on the road when well maintained
When your mechanic starts laughing at you you know you have a problem
If your mechanic is sending you a christmas card, you know it's time to shop for a better car
Thats cuz he knows "he got him one"!
Euro mechanics laugh all the way to the bank. Nearly every service on my parents VW golf they bought new was almost $1000.
Hoovie: *has two mechanically totaled BMWs scrapped*
Also Hoovie: *buys another BMW*
:) :) :)
Good content. Plus he likes them.
... only to drive it to the scrap yard
Makes good click revenue.
That was awesome response 😁😁😁
Omggg since when did u had a red mx5😍😍😍that’s my dream car I can’t explain how much I love those cars , pls do more videos with that, long time subscriber🤟🏾🤟🏾🤟🏾
I was a victim of a 2005 BMW X3. I was in my early 20s looking for my first nicer vehicle. Besides minor issues such as tearing intake boots and valve cover gasket rotting, the steering angle sensor became permanently on and the transfer case / AWD system malfunctioned and was unfixable by anyone I brought it to. I put a new transfer case on it and it still was screwed somehow. The engine was ok 3.0 M54, did have misfire issues with coils and plugs needing replaced, burned a quart of oil a month, but constant problems that even seasoned metro specialists couldnt solve. Burned through way more money than I paid for it trying to fix it. Ended up cutting my losses and moved on!
I can imagine Scotty Kilmer rolling up in his 94 Celica screaming" money pit!!!!" Waving his arms 😂😂😂
Heh! Heh! Heh! *horse picture*
Too funny😂
Lol
enraged gecko, thanks for the laughs! 😂🤣😂🤣
Gold \o/
Used car salesman there
"Headlining is sagging, but its still there"
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Yeah, it's not on the floorboard yet and has a ways to go! I also noticed the "soft touch dashboard" (he said it was still nice???) was doing it's usual thing which is turning sticky and too soft so just your fingernail makes what looks like a gouge or if you pulled your nail a long gash. BMW made one of the world's self destructing SUVS for which they should be commended.
Shoutout to Hoovie for further depreciating the value of good cars for the people who know their way around them 🙏🏻
Like.....himself. Convenient he's a car flipper.
All two of you.
I own a 2004 X5 3.0i with 180k miles. It is solid. The sun roof still works...almost everything still works minus a few things. I don’t drive like this guy. Sure a fuse is out that makes the signal on one side flash double speed. My check tire pressure light is on (so what it’s just a sensor), and a internal door handle mechanism but everything else works. Sure the gray seats need be sanded and recolored link how to below). But it is 16 years old. My internal drivers door handle mechanism also did what this video passenger side handle did. Minor fix (parts on Amazon). I replaced the front brakes pads and rotors for $450 (parts & labor...again from FCP Euro and hired a guy from a shop and it’s a easy job he did off work). Just change the oil with synthetic weight as the manual recommends. Sure the axl boots tear, mine did too, but again I baby it how I drive and am still rolling fine. I’ve had no engine or transmission problems. Just the internal door mechanism (again easy fix), I changed the front brake pads and rotors, and replaced the battery since it was old (those are big and $160) but am now getting good use of mine. I don’t floor it and drive it hard like I bet this person does. I drive it so it lasts. I love the sun roof and back built in window shades which keep the sun off my 3 year old. It’s a beater that is working for me! And I don’t give a shit if someone bumps it or whatever. The freedom from stress is amazing because I once had a nice tricked out powder coated low profile rims car. Bunch of F ing stress protecting it. If you don’t have people giving you nice cars for completing high school that you trash and then call junk then maybe go earn the $ and pay for it yourself and then maybe you will appreciate a cheap car that does well if you do some basics. But hey my parents were just blue collars.
How to restore the seats:
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Best video I have seen on headlight oxidation restoration:
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Guy looking for an X5 Drivers door in blue: "finally found a junkyard that has one!"
Goes to see it:
I was thinkin the same thing lol
To be fair, Hoovie is trying to stop them from investing in an X5 lol
@@AdelAlqadi1 yeah like those 7 series he just got rid of
Same!!! lmao!!!
Never. xD :D
He said he bought it for $1,000? Honestly, the experience of driving a few miles to the junkyard in a straight-piped X5 kinda sounds worth that much.
the best part is not giving a sh**
And the car already paid for itself after just 100k views.
I mean realistically you could drive it till it dies fully which it hasnt yet
@@chinadashauthority65 I bet that trip over the railroad tracks at the end probably broke something vital and pushed it into "unsafe to drive any distances" territory
I can just imagine someone thinking "great that it's junked, I need a scratch free drivers door in that color" and then watching to the end of the video! LOL
I've got an 06 x5 4.4i. It's been the best summer ever. The only troubles I've had were poor tire wear in the year and poor brake pad and rotor replacement. So, I had all the suspension bushing replaced, and upgraded aftermarket rotors & calipers. 187k miles now. Not a spec of rust anywhere. Given what a new x5 v8 costs I'm keeping mine.
i have the same car! i had to replace the whole engine recently though... completely worth it bc I'm in love with the car
Hoovie is the type of guy to buy a car just to take it to the junk yard.
Facts!!
He did it last year with a Lincoln mark vii
Taking it where it should be lmao hoovie relocation services
Sneaky though he ends up with a net +ve bank account thanks to your eyeballs.
"Removing Catalytic Converter" 500+ HP
and 4 grand richer
That really works
More like over 360 hp to the wheels real talk shut it broke talk
lol, I bought a 3.0 one of these without the air suspension that has been perfect so far other than the outside door handles, drivers stalk, & some plastic clips holding heating controls in place all easy fixes. I’ve owned this 2001 X5 for 4 years now, bought it cheap from the Red Cross over 100k miles. I needed something cheap after a guy ran a red-light hitting me & I got screwed by insurance. It’s been a surprisingly great car that I never thought I’d see in one of your videos.
That ending was EPIC! 😆 Who knew the X5 could sound so amazing when "straight piped" haha. What a great send off for this total wreck of car!
1st Gen BMW X5: totaled without ever being in an accident.
Thats called gap insurance in bmw terms.
That’s the best sounding BMW I’ve ever heard 😂
Lawrence A is buy it just to show off the loud noise It be so much fun to have people listen to it and get opinions
It's rare to hear a BMW actually working in the wild 🤣
James Slejko they’re an endangered species now😂
Gotta say with the exhaust taken off this actually sounds epic
i've been driving my 2003 X5 4.6is daily for 8 years. have not had any problems with it other than regular minor maintenance. i will qualify that by adding that i do not have a long commute so haven't racked up a ton of miles. also i rarely drive around in sport mode. you don't want your transmission doing the braking for you. use the brakes for that. when i drive in sport mode i tend to do that only while mostly accelerating
There is an old guy in Houston sitting in a 94 Celica laughing at you right now!
Scotty doesn't even know what day it is let alone anything about Hoovie.
Well, Hoovie did rev his engine.
Scotty lives in Houston? That’s interesting
*trunk
The z3 m Coupe is just looking down on that X5 like "Oh you will acknowledge his existence but not mine"
with most hope he’s preparing something on the car. Either that or it’s not his and he’s holding onto it for someone.
@@michaeld2799md Yeah i think its a friends car. I dont think our boi would do a Euro plate. Thats never been his thing.
I have X5 E53 3.0i 2001 with 230k mileage. It is not so bad. it is not cheap car. I spent almost $50000 on it in 2001 Aug. The major reason I still keep this 22 years old X5 is snow road driving handling. 10 years ago a heavy snow storm with 20" snow on road and my whole family in the X5. We safely home and we saw a lot of cars abundant road side. This BMW X-drive is worthy safety feature.
I'm on Copart right now looking for a cheap BMW X5. Thank you for the review
I got a "buy a certified used BMW!" ad at the part where Hoovie showed the check engine light 🤣
I use to have this car. In the beginning it feels great because you have a bmw. That feelings goes away quickly
Its always some kind of pump that fails.
The SMILE on Car Ninja's face revving it up! Couldn't stop watching that part!
One of the best Hoovie video's in a long time. PS was that a miata in the garage?
I have owned 3 BMWs and I've come to the conclusion that buying, owning and driving a BMW is like dating a wild smoking hot yet crazy as hell woman. At first, it is pure joy and excitement and you feel it is worth everything you put into it. You tell your friends who warned you against falling for her they were wrong, she is delightful and brings you so much happiness and she is different than before. Then, there are a few minor issues that you rationalize as part of the price of being able to enjoy this wild, beautiful, exciting, fun to handle thing. Finally, the never ending horrifically expensive, non stop problems and issues drive you to the point of being willing to do almost anything to get away from the madness. Even the massive financial hit you take when you get rid of it is made more than bearable by the knowledge you are free from the clutches of the evil beast.
What you just said is almost poetic to true 👍👍
Unless you get a diesel BMW (3.0D a.k.a M57D30). Very reliable engines, better than those crap V8 that blow headgaskets...diesels can get up to 1 million km easy
Ya I've heard german cars are the best to drive but turn into Satan when they start to have issues. Best to research reliable models and learn to work on the car/find someone cheap to fix it. You'd have to be rich to afford paying the BMW dealer to fix everything, some are easier than others i've heard. But if you don't want to deal with that it's best to lease or just keep changing cars after the warranty expires.
MousemanLV no new bmw diesel engines are even worse than the their gas engines because of all the bullshit they put on them to make Greta Thunberg happy
Yep.....you have definetaly owned a few bmw's.....
15:42 the best looking BMW 7 series ever made in the background
E38 is the most beautiful car ever made
definitely!!!
Why yes it is!! I own the twin but mine is an IL sport. Love it and will do what it takes to keep it!
I noticed the car ninja's garage has almost all BMWs.
Here in Germany the repairs for that X5 cost max 2500€ ....D.I.Y. !!!
Wow, man, there's like millions of people who would drive that dream X5 for at least 5 more years! It was in a decent shape. In my country they fix all these problems with parts from other salvage vehicles and then sell it as a "perfect vehicle" driven only by grandma to the pharmacy store and back home! :)
My father has a 3.0d manual . Bought it like 4 years ago never had a problem with it aside from the windows regulators( ithink it has been cursed as he changed every single one of them twice) but excep that the car runs great and never had issues with it. It still is his daily.
Hoovie: "If I had big breasts, they'd be bouncing and I would be getting a lot more views." Lol! So true though!
Yeah
doug has been trying this theory recently but it hasn't generate more views for him
man breast are one of the worst things ever...if you are a man and have breasts, do something about it!
@@jerzyfam Haha Yeah, man boobs are bad and gross. I used to have them myself, but not anymore. I work out every week.
@@jeremylarson6267 Very interesting!
Hoovie: "it's a $20 part"
car ninja: laughs
$20 parts don’t exist for x5’s lol
@@jakestachel The X5 could have come with a $20 note taped to the sun visor and it'd be a $100 part.
You can buy the door latch mechanism for about $25 on eBay. Window regulators are cheap too.
@@thomprd It will break a year later.
@@jakestachel Maybe cheap Chinese replica parts (which never last, if they fit at all!) but certainly not OEM BMW parts. $100 seems to be the entry point for most OEM BMW parts, except for maybe nuts and bolts etc.
The simpler 3.0 ones were good. Or maybe I got lucky. I bought a base model '05 a couple years used, with 20k miles on it. I drove it to 190k miles and it never had any problems other than a few pixels going dead in the dash, and then there was some sort of resistor in the blower fan that they had to fix and that cost some. And the sunroof stopped opening. Other than that I just had the BMW dealer do the prescribed maintenance. It wasn't terribly expensive. But it didn't have a V8 or air suspension or any of that stuff as in the did. I think that era of X5s was one of the best designs -- it was just the right size and drove great.
Those door lock actuators are great fun. Mine broke on my 03 z4 and it was a pain in the butt to replace, but definitely doable
"Might sound like a Chevy" ...... love it ..... even my 68 Camaro doesn't sound that good. LOL
Your Camaro needs an LS swap.
This episode was just hilarious, Johnny smile when you said about removing the cat, couldn't stop laughing after that.
He definitely liked when Julius Hoovie demanded more katchup.
Yeah that was "Yeah let's do it" "I have to deal with very serious customers and their serious bills all day long"
Was comparing the 2020 Honda pilot vs Merc and BMW ....I am going with the pilot. Thanks for letting us know 👍👍👍👍
Thanks man, I have been looking at buying one of these
Tyler has such good luck with BMWs
BMWs*
Gabriel Schwartz thanks Gabe. Edited.
Either this or they are all crap.
Gabriel Schwartz GABE!
Even better with Mercedes
The drive to the junk yard was priceless!!!😂
My parents have the i6 01 x5 been owning it for 16 years. Still runs great, they did put 5k in repairs but I say for the amount of time they've had it, it's not bad
Ive had an 02 3.0l x5 for the last 7 years putting over 100k miles on it. Honesty its been excellent, with 215k. Ive towed several cars 10+ hours, towed campers, trailers , pulled cars out of ditches etc. With that being said im a European car mechanic, and most of them i get in are junk... usually because they are not taken care of.
My 3.0 has been great. I tow a trailer regularly and I have over 240k on it. I love how it drops down at 80 and just pulls away to 100+ like it's nothing. Lots of window regulators, door handles, etc. But nothing that would make me get rid of it. About to do $2500 more to it to make it like new and drve it until it dies! (of course it will only be worth about $2300 once I do that! Lol but I love driving it)
Hoovie: "The X5 is one of the worst BMW's ever made."
BMW 7-Series (N64): "What am I, a joke to you?"
The X5 is ONE of the worst, the bengal 7 series is THE worst
And the N47 engine, the Valvetronic, the 316 Compact, the X6, the i8, the X4, the X3
I know you're making a joke but can't multiple cars be one of the worst ever made
@@blue7081 Nothing wrong with the compact, bud.
not sure where you got the n64 part from. The v8s are the n62 engine and the body is e65. Either that or you meant something else.
13:14
Hoovie: yeah that's a cheap fix, they're like 20$ parts...
Mechanical Ninja: ...**laughs in BMW**
Its actually not that bad, door handles, regulators, test pipes to delete the cats and get two rear bags. All in with new aftermarket parts you are in at around $600, wrench on it yourself and have a pretty sweet daily
I bought a cheap 2004 no reserve X5 3.0 on Ebay with a view to doing it up. It cost me £2335 via the Ebay auction. I have spent £4,500 on getting all the fixes done and now it looks and drives like a dream. I have had all the wheels powder coated in gun metal grey. The interior and seats were in very good condition which really helped when I bought it. So it can work out when you buy an old X5 but you have to have the cash to do the fixes and you have to think the worst. I think I have got fairly lucky.
Can’t stop watching when The Car Ninja took out the cat and Hoovie is just smiling. That’s worth 1,000 in itself. 😂
What I learned from this is that if I find a 1k bmw X5 - buy it, cut the exhausts of, and enjoy (till it breaks)
I agree. I mean is a freaking V8 for $1500. Put a set of cheapo ebay coilovers , straight pipe it and you got a fun weekend car.
Worst car ever made. !!!
@@harveyhankerson4307 very wrong
fuck ya lol thats what i did lol and i love my shit
thats what i did with my e46 then i got hit by another car..
Glorious is an understatement, when it grabbed 2nd and squatted, i almost wanted one lol. Sounds wicked!!!!
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.
Hoovie: Keys NEVER on side of car.
Also Hoovie: Pays car ninja $1000 for body work to fix it.
The last two minutes were pure fun entertainment 😂😂😂 Hoovie’s face looked like he wanted to kill someone lmao😂
Mattia Gnoato I laughed at all the Mercedes vehicles at the junk yard 😂
My X5 has over 200k miles, still running strong, 3.0i
The 3.0i is a better engine option for the X5. The 4.4 is worse
Yep the 3.0i 6cyl is the way to go for the long haul
Auto-trader is littered with BMW SUVs with 150K+ miles. The same is true of most vehicles this hate-bait channel tells people not to buy.
3.0 is a great engine for X5, straight 6 engines are the best BMW engines ever, thats why 3.0 is reliable and the V8 4.0 and 4.4 are the trash
@@KristjanLovesCarsmight get a 04 X5 worth it ?
I currently use a 30d for towing. Changed water pump and thermostat because it has 140k on clock. Never had a minutes trouble with it. Brilliant work horse. A car is as good as the person looking after it.
I’m currently looking into one . 3.0i 04 . Clean Body
Somehow he still forgot about his z3 m coupe
It's not he's car, it belongs to a friend. He's just storing it till the guy remembered its a bmw a scrappers it.
@@chriscollins550 you've obviously never driven a z3. Proper gem.
@@SuperInfamous1234 sine I live in the UK and they was everywhere at one time till people wise up and sold them or scrap them. Yes I have driven one. Manual gearbox is better and the auto was really bad. Hardly any traction on the rear end as being rear wheel drives but unbalanced car.
@@SuperInfamous1234 very nice car indeed, not worth the current price tho and they aint gonna get cheaper.
@@chriscollins550 There was never z3 m with automatic gearbox...and yes, z3 m coupe is one of the best BMWs ever
Hoovie, for the love of god, follow the #1 rule of used BMW ownership: If it doesn't have an I6, don't buy it
335s had an i6 and were straight doo doo
@@floggyWM1 N54 has also been called the European 2jz. Now HPFP aside they are pretty good motors.
What else about the 335? I've owned both a N54 and N55 version and both were great cars.
I have an 05 X5 4.8is and for the most part all of that is standard failures. The door handles are a cheap pot metal design which breaks. The aftermarket replacements don't use the same cheap metal. The suspension air ride is typical too. They used cheap bags that dry rot. The replacements which you can get are only a few hundred bucks. Or if you want there is a kit to delete the air ride system. Expensive but would reduce headaches. If you buy the newest air bags they last longer. The limp mode for the trans is probably due to your alternator issue. If the voltage drops you trigger a traction control failure. The valve seals are pretty typical and with the right tooling can be replaced in car without much issues. The transfer case could very well be the the motor but more likely the cheap plastic gear which can also be replaced cheaply without buying the 400+ dollar motor as a complete unit. The torn up boots are also common but not a huge deal.
In short there are a lot of potential issues and unless you are willing to deal with them yourself in some cases then walk away. No point in using factory parts which are ridiculously priced. You can buy the same part by the original manufacturer for BMW without the BMW part number for literally 50 to 75% less than what the "OEM" parts cost. You can also change out almost all of the suspension parts for around 1200 bucks for a kit. Comes with everything you need minus labor. Again they are money pits in the end but so are many vehicles. Best to avoid them unless you are willing to do much of the work yourself.
As a former BMW owner, I can totally relate to the barrage of things constantly breaking. I only wish I’d straight-piped my 750iL’s V12. 😎
8:06 I mean it is a pretty true statement 🤷♂️
Yeah 😂
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Pretty much
Finally a car that s not. A dream car . Hoovies going back to his roots
you can hear the fear flashbacks in his voice when he talks about this car lmao poor guy :(
I have a BMW X5 E53 auto 2001 love it to bits do all my own repairs as you say loads in the scap yards parts are cheap in the UK and so are after market parts
Wow, after the cats were removed, that was a perfect send-off for that beast!
My dad had one when I was younger. It was ol' reliable and he drove it for 8 years. Loved it.
Then it burned to the ground. Literally.
Wow, 8 years and then it crumbles? My Fiat Punto mk2 is 19 years old, runs like a dream and I only had to replace perishable parts.
the diesel ones are ok
@@Snarl616 id rather drive an x5 for 8 years than a punto for 50 years🤣
@@lukezi3952 Let me know how badly it will break your heart. It's a not enough sporty SUV incapable of going off road. And it will fall apart.
@@Snarl616 sorry, but nobody who buys a luxury SUV thinks that it will go offroad, dirt roads at most. Why is that even an argument? Ill happily drive and maintain an x5 over a cheap horrible and embarrasing little shitbox punto😂
I have a 20 yr old 4.4 x5 m62, just did the timing chain and guides and all the gaskets and rebuilt the VANOS. Cost $1k-$2k for all that, but half the cost was expensive timing tools...it's in great shape for a 20 yr old car. No leaks after redoing the gaskets.
I got one with 300kkm on, did another 100kkm and sold still running. The mech was a bit iffy, border line . In those models misfire is caused by plastic vacuum lines and intake leaks. Cats usually cease the motors and he knows about it for sure.
All I could think was "24hr Lemons race it!" Then thought "YES! Hoovie, Ed, and Tavarish should get together for a Lemons race!" Or You, JR, and Westen!
The latter options sounding better!!!
But Westen would put a Cummings in it and never get rid of it. :D
Tavarish: I found an amazing BMW X5 on the junkyard and over the next 2 years I‘m going to fix it.
@User968 and after 9 years he gives up on it and junks it
@@aldeen3 and goes back to the lambo.
That's how you should do it
Huh, I've had exactly the opposite experience. But then again, mine was never abused.
@Alex No, not really. Good quality afforable parts are surprisingly easy to find, you just have to know where to look.
@Von_Nightmare_ Luciferian racist much?
The wonder if this one was owned by the kind that think they own the roads and zip in and out of traffic just to get no where and go around you at a traffic light because they cant wait.
I bet yours was 3.0 because straight 6 engines are the best bmw engines ever, v8 in bmw is really bad trash
@@KristjanLovesCars Smooth as hell 2003 BMW X5 with V8 engine that has 200,000+ miles. Previous and original owner was an old man who babied it. Ran great with cheap as shit lawnmower spark plugs that were total garbage, and hasn't given me a single issue since changing them with higher quality spark plugs. My father has a 2006 X5 with 250,000+ miles, and it has basically zero issues except an exteremely minor oil leak that we can fix by changing a gasket. I honestly don't get why some people hate them so much.
We have a 535i - similar headaches.. she loves it! More overtime..!! Needed to watch this to help me not make the same mistakes 😂. Straight pipes, now I just might buy one.