Problems with 2008 MINI Cooper ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

Airbag sensor mat does not recognize whether a person is sitting on the passenger side thereby not activating the airbag; this has been happening on & off for months; passenger airbag light comes on immediately despite occupancy while parked and during driving (all conditions-highway, city street, turning; etc. started approximately from 75k miles; now constant from 85k on

My car only has 47,000 miles on it and has the same passenger side airbag issue. it started off at times having the problem, now is on all the time. mini wants $125 to diagnose the problem, which seems evident. also paid $425 to fix electrical wiring that corroded and $1,700 2 months earlier this year when wheel sensor went bad and 3 lights went off in the car.

The sensors on this car were no good. it did not inform me that there wasn't any oil or coolant i'm the car. i only had the car for two weeks after we discovered the dealership did not inspect or service the car like they promised. on 9/10, the car turned off while i was driving and wouldn't turn back on. two mechanics have told me the car is no good and i am not at fault for the defects. the entire time the car was in my possession, the sensors did not warn me about any services the car needed. i have been going back and forward with the dealership about the defects. i returned the car, asked for a full refund, and they have yet to do anything to honor my wishes. *tr

I was driving around and i began loosing power to my car, so i stopped and then i couldn't get it started again. i was in the process of calling a tow company when i popped the hood and when i lifted it up i could smell gasoline and noticed a cloud of fumes so i backed up and it caught fire so i called 911 and now my cars virtually gone. i come across some mini cooper owners club forum and its apparently happened to other people and also on youtube. or it seems like it was the same thing since they caught fire in the engine first too. i called mini and they are going to have me tow it there so they can diagnose it to determine what happened. *tr

My 2008 mini cooper speedometer is off by approximately 6 miles an hour. so that if i am actually driving at 50 mph the speedometer will show 56 mph. additionally, if i drive 100 miles, the odometer will actually show as if i drove 106 miles. this is both a safety issue as the instrumentation is wrong, as well as a fraud issue as the car loses value because of the perceived additional miles driven and would be out of warranty sooner because of the perceived mileage amount. also, if this were a lease and i went over the amount allotted by said lease, mini would penalize the drive per the mileage. bmw/mini has told me that they are aware of the issue and say its not a problem as they give alot of leeway for the accuracy of the speedometer. *tr