Hi Everyone, Apologies that I never updated this thread, it has been on my mind for ages that I needed to. Damage....£6000. My local BMW dealership and service centre (Specialist Cars Tring) were brilliant. They took the problem seriously, they fought my corner with BMW and I manged to get BMW to ...

Wow Facebook page makes interesting reading. X5Sport I will ask that question.. I am guessing it wasn't replaced and hence the accident?? That said, I think one big question for all affected owners is can we rely upon the replacement propshaft? Have BMW solved the problem? I thought my car was ...

Thank you everyone for comments. I will look at the facebook page. I will also update how I get on with BMW and more information on the damage when I have it. The car is a late 2010 model, never skipped a beat up till now!!

Hi Guys and Girls, I am very interested to share any experiences with other E70 X5 drivers who have had a propshaft failure. On Wednesday I was driving along a dual carriageway with my wife on our way back to the kids when bang... the car nearly lost control and I had to pull across the lanes and ...

Cher, I have just had a catastrophic propshaft failure on my X5 E70. We nearly had a very bad accident. I am going to post on this as a new topic but I am interested in how you have got on as I am looking at a big repair cost and my looked after 53,000 mile car which had always been serviced by BMW ...