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Originally Posted by jeffvb9
Just found this thread. So at the end of 2014 after the BMW dealer ensured me I had an ok drive shaft I was driving on the freeway and heard a loud thud along with a lot of noise. Drive shaft had blown apart. 6 weeks later BMW replace the engine, transmission, and drive shaft along with some other pieces under the car that had been a bit damaged. So that happened at 70,000 miles and now my 2011 has 97,000 but only have 27,000 mile old tranny and engine.
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same happened to mine previously owned 2011 X5 35i at about 63000, draft shaft (drivers side) disconnected on highway back in October (the car was in the shop 2 weeks before this happened and everything checked out ok), since there was active recall they replaced draft shafts, put new transmission (damaged) and all under covers, the car was in the shop for about 4-5 days and I didn't have to pay a dime but that feeling when you see sparks coming out behind u car is priceless (scary). Since then I moved on to 13 x5m and thinking if I need to check draft shafts again. I also had a water pump and turbo vacuum failed in the same month and my AC was acting up, that made me make a jump to another car.