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Originally Posted by Paladin1
Long a point of speculation with BMW if the paint color made a difference in the actual functioning of various automatic safety features, because they were eliminated in some markets. Never confirmed, and from empirical evidence (safety features included in some markets, some not, some models, some not, same color of paint) probably the paint color makes no difference at all in whether a feature works or not. Just another Teutonic quirk from Bavaria....
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If I had to guess, it is more about not wanting to spend the time and money to test the systems with the rare paint color choices, not that they necessarily expect them to not work, they just don't take chances with safety related systems which although it is frustrating is the right mentality to have. Whether this is overkill or not is not easy to determine from our uninformed point of view if this guess is near the truth.