I find it plausible.
My MINI (and many R56 MINIs) has a glitch in the canbus that tells it to open the boot at random intervals as well as disable the passenger airbag (with a passenger riding).
MINI/BMW-USA tried to find the root of the problem for 13 months and then threw their hands in the air and refused to test-drive it further until I remove my "dangerous non-OE wheels and tires".
Most of the HID "kits" on the market right now are Asian-sourced counterfeits and knock-offs; who knows what one of those ballasts would do to a sensitive canbus...
Oh, I think it's plausible. I'm just skeptical.
See, you even reinforce my case. Your problem, which is a serious problem if the passenger airbag is being disabled, is probably not logged in the Mini system yet. Therefore, NHTSA does not yet know about it. Therefore, it doesn't exist. Now, I'm not saying it's a
conspiracy per se... but it sure is a convenient situation.
Notice how Toyota attempted to ignore The Woz's complaint about cruise control on his Prius. How many other people have the same problem, but they just blow it off. They are incentivized to ignore problems. Only when the issue is forced into public view (such as a famous CEO going to the media, or a driver making a cell phone call before crashing...) do they acknowledge it.
What I understood was that the problem has not returned because he hasn't set the lights to "auto" since having it corrected the 2nd time around......
I wonder what possible difference that could make? I'm sure he has used the lights since then, just not in auto mode. If the issue is some kind of interference between the headlight ballast and the steering system... what difference does it make if the switch is in the auto or on mode?
