This BMX X5 Reveals Why Mechanics Hate SUVs

Diagnosing an oil leak on any automobile is difficult. You may see the stream of dribbling oil RIGHT THERE, dripping off the nook of the oil pan or another simply accessible element. Ah, however that is the place the oil is now, not the place it got here from. Discovering, diagnosing, and fixing the origin of the leak; Therein lies the rub. 

Even our wrenching hero Sreten over on the M539 Restorations channel on YouTube—who’s printed dozens of restoration movies—is having bother with this one. In fact this explicit BMW would not make the duty any simpler. 

It is an E70-generation BMW X5, inbuilt 2008. The X5 has served because the Bavarian marque’s flagship SUV for the higher a part of 20 years now. Throughout that point, the X5 has solely grown extra competent, succesful, and certainly complicated. This instance proven within the video is powered by the BMW N62 engine, a naturally aspirated V-8 constructed from roughly 2001 via 2010. 

Regardless of a scarcity of turbos and related parts, there’s lots standing between Sreten and an oil-leak analysis. For instance, the N62 has three unseen connections on the again of its consumption manifold that have to be disconnected earlier than it the manifold wrenches free. And that is on high of the rats-nest tangle of strains crisscrossing the manifold in each route that needed to be freed first. 

We demand an increasing number of of our SUVs with each generational leap, and that goes particularly for BMW’s flagship. These are certainly unbelievable SUVs, however you will not discover a lot pleasure laying beneath one, looking for the supply of that drip drip drip.