Yesterday my car decided to speak Spanish and to use kilometres rather than miles, random things can happen on both the touchscreen and dashboard.

The auto dipping headlights stopped dipping a few weeks ago as well, so I’m back to using the stalk switches for that function, as the technology isn’t 100% reliable, hopefully it will remain as minor issues and not escalate.

Yesterday my car decided to speak Spanish and to use kilometres rather than miles, random things can happen on both the touchscreen and dashboard.

The auto dipping headlights stopped dipping a few weeks ago as well, so I’m back to using the stalk switches for that function, as the technology isn’t 100% reliable, hopefully it will remain as minor issues and not escalate.

Yesterday my car decided to speak Spanish and to use kilometres rather than miles

Just be thankful it didn't decide to start driving on the right hand side of the road for you!

   - Andy.

The lease on my car has just run out and lots of small things have just stopped working. No warning, just stopped. You can go and pay for them back again and one (which I didn't know about or use) is auto dipping headlights. There was some publicity a little while ago when BMW started offering features (e.g. heated seats) by rental - they got quite a lot of kickback. Personally I think it is very poor engineering to provide a feature that people come to rely on then suddenly yank it without warning. It also seems unethical to try to force them to pay by encouraging use for 3 years first!

Mine is an Audi so it's not just BMW playing tricks with things that are installed and working, but stop by design not faults.

I agree Roger! I think the current process of 'subscribing' to certain functions in your vehicle is a stretch too far. 'Oh you haven't paid for your heated seats subscription this month so we're switching it off' 'Oh you want to use the headlights? That'll be an extra £2.99 a month thank you'. 

My usual car is a 23 year old Audi TT with all the basic functions that I need to get me from A to B. Unfortunately I've just taken it off the road as I'm having issues with the alignment of the cam belt (long story I won't go into it). As a temporary run around (until my pride and joy is fixed) I've got myself another second hand 20 year old car, again with just basic controls that can get me from A to B just fine. I don't need automatic lights as I can switch my lights on and off just fine by myself and I certainly don't need a touch screen to distract me from driving. I know where all the buttons and switches are in the car by touch alone. I don't have to take my eyes of the road