Two problems related to driveshaft have been reported for the 2008 BMW X5. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
Tl-the contact owns a 2008 BMW X5. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds over 40 mph, an abnormal loud noise could be heard from underneath the vehicle. No warning lights were illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic where it was diagnosed that drive shaft joints were worn out. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact mentioned that the VIN was not included in NHTSA campaign number: 16v311000 (power train, drive line, driveshaft). The manufacturer was notified of the issue. The failure mileage was 132,000. Aa.
In October of 2015 while making a right turn very slowly into a one lane drive thru, my BMW X5 accelerated climbed up a 2 foot wall that was on the drivers side rode the front drivers side wheel upon the wall. I tried to break and pull the hand brake the car would not stop. I turned the steering wheel to the right the car hopped off the wall on to the ground and I turned off the car. The car just accelerated so fast and hard my sister and I could not believe how it climbed the tile wall with one wheel and came down to the ground. Now I had just got the car back from the dealership 5 days earlier when they replaced the water pump and replaced the 2 front tires and did a wheel alignment a $2500. 00 job. It was very scary luckily there was no people or another car close by. I immediately called the dealership and took it in the next morning. I explained what happened I felt that the car had a malfunction with the accelerator it made the car go so fast and hard. It wasn't just a crash into the wall it climbed the wall. Of course BMW said the engineer said there is nothing wrong with the brakes or drive shaft? what gets to me is that I just got the car back from the local dealership. I feel like the power of the vehicle was so strong and powerful there was no way that it could hop on the wall like that and not just crash straight into the wall. Oh side note the very next morning 10-12-2015 my sister heard on abc morning news that a BMW SUV just ran into a glass window at a store the car accelerated on it's own!.