I have heard of it, but i haven't actually seen it happen... i guess a guy on an 08m8 had a problem with his... bought it from MM, told him to unplug his headlights and turn off his handwarmers and i guess he did that and it ran like a top for the rest of the weekend... i dunno what the deal is... how much power can the stator put out? i got a 2 screen digitron, aux fuel pump and boondocker box on my BD turbo kit on my M8 and haven't had stator issues yet... going to put on an A/F guage this week as well...