Yesterday was the day, finally got aircon again, took me 7 hours to strip the dash, center console and remove old fan, clean and fit new one, then put everything back, there were some good video's on utube, slow and steady, now one very happy x5 owner again 

It's the fan motor that has given up, so new one ordered, dashboard out, and hopefully, aircon again by next Monday 

I have an Xtrons, same problem, CD just stopped working, just use the usb and memory stick, very fiddly to use, shame as it has a very good sound to it.
Could never get it to connect with my phone via Bluetooth, will change it at some point this year.

Thanks for the reply, new one arrives 9am tomorrow morning, hopeful that will solve it. Will keep you all posted on the outcome.

Going to replace the hedgehog tomorrow, and see if that works, don't really want to take all the dash out to replace the motor unless I have to, fingers crossed.

Checked all the fuses, they are all fine

Hi, on Sunday the blower was working fine, Monday morning, dead as a dodo, also the rear blower has died at the same time, auto elec says it's the motor, climate readout goes up and down, fan speed as well, but fan does not operate, front or rear, any ideas pleae.

Hi, it's an E53 2003 my. Cannot get the uploader to work and post pics.

Hi, just got our first X5, had a 5 series 523i for a while, sold that bought a VW Passat 1.8T, but couldn't get used to the difference in quality, so it had to go, and the X5 arrived, should collect it next week