Car Bluetooth + House WiFi = no connection

To add to some of the other bluetooth idiosyncrasies here, may I offer the following:
I have a '10 Volvo w/ integrated bluetooth. With my 3Gs (and I -believe- with iOS 4, but I didn't have it long) I was able to leave the house, get in the car wherein it would auto-pair/connect/whatever one calls that.
Now, with the iPhone 4 (under iOS 4 and seemingly even worse in 4.0.1) I've noticed that it is sometimes failing to auto connect to the car. It also seems to drop its connection on occasion.
A little empirical fun reveals that this failure seems to happen in two circumstances- 1) when I'm also in an area where there is pervasive wifi or 2) in a place where my ATT signal is bad.
It sort of makes me wonder if, since the wifi and bt share an antenna, there is some interference as a result of the radio trying to increase its signal strength to connect with the fading wifi... or if there's some crazy other issue when the phone is trying to strive to save a signal, regardless of if its bt, wifi, cellular.
Just sort of adding this as a data point here, I've done all the usual troubleshooting, but sort of curious if anyone else sees anything like this.
NB- my body/skin composition seems to be such that I can cause the notorious wireless signal drop even with lots of tape over the gap (I'm super capacitive!!!) so maybe I'm just acting like a big block of iron and sucking up all the signal. But- the above seems to happen regardless of if the phone is in my pocket, next to my proscuitto-salted leg-hock, or sitting on the seat.

At the risk of being echo-chambering here- this problem was resolved with 4.1, should anyone be curious.

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First, grow up. Just because YOUR phone isn't working, doesn't mean Apple put out bad software. I've not had any difficulty, nor has anyone else I know. And just how is Apple risking lives with Bluetooth kits not working? It's YOUR decision to talk on the phone or text and drive. Not Apple's.
We're users here, volunteering our time to help others. Posts like yours, which are whiny and ranting, simply means we're likely to ignore you and not provide you with any help. Not to mention, it makes you look absolutely foolish.
Further making you look foolish is the fact that you haven't even asked a technical support question, nor have you provided anyone here with any troubleshooting steps you might have taken, including those recommended in the user guide.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1664
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