I read this, and it may or may not be related, but when I had some work done on my car (Exhaust), it was on the lift, now with the car being at the regular dealer checkups, and myself working under the hood for the intake - they found it because it was on the lift- a LOOSE GROUND WIRE. It literally was dettached from the car. The guys doing work on the car could not figure why this would be detached, and one possibility could be it left the factory this way, and given the placement, would never be noticed until it was on the lift. It was the driver side, literally right under the driver, dangling from the engine bay. They had to search online/manuals, and found it was attached somewhere on the left side of the car, I believe by the fuse box.
Now I don't know the symptons of what could happen if it shorted out etc, but I imagine it would be electrical, and hard to diagnose the cause. It just made me think that for some reason it could have left the factory with this ground wire missing.
Anyone have insight on this? If mine left the factory with this wire not attached, theres a good chance it wasn't the only one. And even with service checkups remained unnnoticed due to its position.
It was literally hidden. It was dangling right behind the black covering on the driver side. I would have the dealer at least explore this possibility.
