Hi everyone, After hijacking brendy's post a few weeks ago (sorry brendy- hope your transmission is sorted now?) in a desperate bid to get to the bottom of my problems with my own auto transmission, and finding this forum most useful and member really helpful, I thought it was about time to ...

Thanks again Steamyrotter! Will remember it and discuss with whoever I end up picking for the job....

Thanks gchristofi and Steamyrotter! I have in the meantime and after some digging got an offer from idealengines.co.uk to have my gearbox replaced with a reconditioned one, for around £1500.- all-in. They also give a 12 month warranty. I am wondering if anybody has done business with them before? ...

Thanks for the response X5Sport :) I have inquired with 2 rebuilders and one (transmissionskent.com in Gravesend) quoted around £2200.- including a 12 month/12000 mile warranty, the other (idealengines.co.uk) ~£1500.- including 6 month warranty. After all I know now I would feel inclined to rather ...

Hi Everyone, Apologies in advance for the long post, but I have bene tearing my hear out over this for a while, and feel that I need to pass on some info I have gathered thus far, and am hoping to gain further information which I need to take the next step. I too have a 2001 X5 4.4i with 91000 miles ...