e Gremlins? and mpg on the 35d

[Destination: Moon]

Last week I got out of the car with the headlamps still on and the X5 running. One of my fog lights was on. Only the passenger side. When I turned on the fog lamps they both lit up. When I turned off the headlamps, and fogs with the switches, both fogs went out.

Seems that when the headlights were in the Auto setting (and the fogs turned off) the right fog lamp turned on too. In the manual mode, or parking lamps only, the fogs worked OK....Anyone else had this?

(Also, seems the car allows the fogs with the parking lights only. All our other cars turn off the fogs with the head lamps off or high beams on.)

Checked again last night and everything is working as it should.

Other than that, and a slight high pitch rattle in the dash, my car is great! On the hiway, even on the steepest grades, it does not down shift. Just cranks away at 2,000 RPM. Crazy!

Getting better than 26 mpg now on the hiway. Yesterday the computer (surprisingly accurate so far) indicated 27.6 mpg. The car seems to get better mpg at around 72 mph than 65 mph. I never have seen this before.
Need a couple more trips to confirm if this is the case.