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1) park car outside

2) get in cold car

3) assume the washer fluid can cut through the frosty windshield

4) frantically switch wipers off because your precious wiper blades are being wrecked by chunks of ice 

5) watch wipers go through another cycle or two and not trust that they are turned off

6) try to turn wipers off again

7) realize they were off the first time you tried

8) watch the wipers get wrecked for another 4 or 5 cycles

9) post about it on local forum  

 

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On 11/11/2017 at 11:10 PM, Jeff said:

I will be more specific, is there any preventative maintenance items I should take care of before the single digits hit and the snow fly’s.

It has 104,000 miles and Is the 3.0L

Is it the n52 3.0 or the n55 3.0?  The only issues i'm aware of on these are some of the electronics.  If you've got the active anti-roll bars i've heard that the servo tends to fail or parts of the auto leveling suspension will fail as well.

 

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18 minutes ago, patsbimmer1 said:

To my knowledge the N52b30 is pretty stout.  I am pretty sure that does use the electric water pump which is a known failure but you don't necessarily replace that as preventative maintenance.

Not as preventative maint, but I might suggest buying a spare of said water pump, and keeping it in the original box in the trunk. Look at ecstuning.com, print it out and then go to the BMW dealership and ask them to match the price.

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Alright I want to change fluids in the X5 and I have got to the power steering fluid

In the manual it says CHF 11s

The bottle on the car says ATF oil (assuming dextron III)?

1 dealer says CHF 11s

Another dealer says ATF oil and it must be plain ATF? Not really sure what that is.

Napa says CHF 11s

What fluid goes in?

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