My wife has a 2009 bmw x5 and last night her engine light came on. Dang thing only has 100,000 on it. Been maintained well. We're gonna take it and get it scanned this evening,  just wandering if there may be any bmw guys on here. Just for the record........ I told her to get a ford. 

1 minute ago, Shane Y said:

I told her to get a ford.

So you could get the check engine light after 10,000 miles?

 

Can't really help you until you get the code(s).

21 minutes ago, Shane Y said:

My wife has a 2009 bmw x5 and last night her engine light came on. Dang thing only has 100,000 on it. Been maintained well. We're gonna take it and get it scanned this evening,  just wandering if there may be any bmw guys on here. Just for the record........ I told her to get a ford. 

If you got your first check engine light at 100k on a BMW, you're d**n lucky! Everyone I've ever talked to who ever owned a BMW has complained about the constant engine problems.

 

It could very well be a sensor.

1 minute ago, Shane Y said:

I believe this was photoshopped, the original was a Ford and for good reason.

a lot of vehicles set of a check engine light at specific intervals to remind you of needing service.  100k is usually one of them too.

 

Or she could have just not screwed the gas cap on tight enough too.  I got like a $30 code reader and it helps me to tell whats going on in my mini cooper (BMW innards) and while i can't reset my check engine light code, i know if it is a real code being thrown or just a reminder deal.  

I can reset the code with a button in the car. But I'm gonna get it ran first. Dang car is pretty nice but it's all push button mumbo jumbo. Seems like everything in that car is a fancy smancy technological process. I just wanna go fishin. 

I had a 2009 328 sport for 3 years. Sold it at 95k miles. Had the engine light come on once due to a sensor. Cost $500 

 

Loved that car but one of the radiator hoses had to be replaced and the service manager called me after hours on his personal phone and told me the entire cooling system was going to have to be replaced within a year and it would cost at least $3k. Plus the tires were needing replacement and they cost almost $2k. He was like I’m not telling you what to do but....  I thanked him and traded it in for my f150 the next month. 

 

Not a day goes by where I don’t miss that car. But man I do not miss the maintenance. 

12 minutes ago, GReb said:

I had a 2009 328 sport for 3 years. Sold it at 95k miles. Had the engine light come on once due to a sensor. Cost $500 

 

Loved that car but one of the radiator hoses had to be replaced and the service manager called me after hours on his personal phone and told me the entire cooling system was going to have to be replaced within a year and it would cost at least $3k. Plus the tires were needing replacement and they cost almost $2k. He was like I’m not telling you what to do but....  I thanked him and traded it in for my f150 the next month. 

 

Not a day goes by where I don’t miss that car. But man I do not miss the maintenance. 

Ford guy......smart man. 

1 hour ago, Shane Y said:

Ford guy......smart man. 

I’m not brand loyal at all. But ford won me over with the 2.7 which I bought right when it came out. Overall I’m satisfied. Took me a while to come from a well built car with tight tolerances to the first year aluminum body where panels didn’t line up perfectly and tolerances were just loose overall 

  It could be an intermittent fault?  Scan it or reset and see if the fault returns?   If a fault remains the code will return.