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1. Park your BMW X5 in a clean and open area to work with. Once you have moved your car, make sure that the parking brake is engaged and block the rear tires with wheel chokes. This step ensures that your car wont move while you are working underneath your BMW.
2. Open the hood of the BMW X5. Use the 3/8-inch socket wrench and 36 mm socket to open the oil filler element cap and set it aside. Use a towel to clean out the canister that holds the oil filter in your car.
3. Remove the oil cap from your BMWs engine and go underneath your car. There will be two trap doors, and one of the trap doors contains the oil drain plug. Pop open the trap door using a flat head screwdriver to expose the oil drain plug. Refer to your users manual for the correct trap door to open.
4. Unscrew the oil drain plug with the 3/8-inch socket wrench and 17 mm socket. Once you have loosened the plug, place the oil pan underneath the your car and continue to unscrew the plug until all of the oil drains out.
5. Put the crush washer that came with your oil filter kit onto the oil drain plug and screw it back in to a torque spec of 18 ft. lbs. or 25 Nm and close the trap door.
6. Fill the car with 7.5 quarts of full synthetic oil and screw the oil cap back onto your car when you are finished.
7. Replace the old oil filter and o-ring on your oil filler element cap. Use the 3/9 in socket wrench and 36 mm socket and screw the it back in to a torque spec of torque spec of 18 ft lbs or 25 Nm.

1. Turn on the vehicle. Allow the vehicle to run for four to five minutes. Turn off the vehicle.
2. Open the vehicle hood. Insert the hood prop.
3. Remove the dipstick from the dipstick tube. Wipe oil from the dipstick with a rag.
4. Pinch the valve -- located on the line of a manual oil extractor -- between your thumb and index finger. Pump the extractor handle fifty times to build pressure in the extractor canister.
5. Slide the end of the extractor hose into the dipstick tube until you feel the hose hit the bottom of the oil pan. Push on the pinch valve to pull oil from the oil pan. Stop the flow of oil by pinching the valve closed.
6. Pull the extractor hose from the dipstick tube. Wipe oil from the hose with a rag. Open the pinch valve when the extractor is clear of the dipstick tube.
7. Insert the dipstick into the dipstick tube. Pull the dipstick out of the tube to check the engine oil level. Remove additional oil if the level remains high.