If you custom order a car, would you care where it was built ??

[Terri Kennedy]

Originally Posted by 3LOU5

I guess I wanted to think that German autoworkers would have more pride in building their cars, rather than South Africans.

Parts come from all over. Many problems are with the components, not the assembly (unless you're buying a car made in Longbridge before the 2000s).

OTOH, the wiring harness in my built-in-Regensburg wagon was hand-made in Regensburg and had at least 3 known defects:
1) Car phone "emergency call" button hooked up to auto-dimming mirror sensor, so car called BMW saying my airbags went off anytime a car behind me hit a pothole at night (that was a hard one to figure out). Almost wound up lemon-lawing the car until they finally found / fixed it.
2) Aux input option connector mis-wired so did not detect installation of aux input (to be fair, 1st week of production with this option).
3) Glovebox flashlight charging wire not hooked up to anything.
They seemed to be proud that they didn't test the harnesses before installing them. [Replacement harnesses contain every option and are factory-tested, but individual car build harnesses only had the options that were ordered and were not tested.]