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After looking through a veiw posts this seems to be a common thing with the X5s, or even BMWs in total.

After getting the door card off and the carrier out at first i couldn't see where the problem was as everything loked fine, however only when i compared it to a picture of a carrier i found online, the wire (ball joint catch) on my carrier seems far strectch than a unused one and also i found this, a crack so looks a new carrier and door handle is required. The model is 2002 X5 3.0d. 

Welcome to the forum and thanks for posting up so quickly. More info in thisthread for you too.

Cheers for the reply SanJ...  It was only once I posted my post that i found this thread. 

After looking through it I noticed another problem with my door handle.  When I removed the handle it came out very easily, without hardly any turns basically.  Looking at your pics it seems the 2 notchs that fit and lock the handle on tothe door have been sheered off. 

Any ideas where to get a spare handle?  i was thinking local breakers yard.

Breakers and eBay is all I can think of.

Hope the link helped and keep posting anything you might feel is useful.