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Further investigation showed that the drain holes under the cowl, one in the middle and one in the corner under the driver's side wiper spindle were completely blocked and whilst there was no water in there when I was removing the motor I imagine it got overwhelmed during recent storm Isha hence...

To close this out now for future reference. I ended up removing the wiper motor and taking it apart to find that I had a fair amount of water inside the electronics box attached to the motor. After shaking out as much as I could and using a hair dryer (don’t tell the Mrs!) to get rid of the...

Today my windscreen wipers decided that they no longer wanted to work except on high speed and the washers went out at the same time. It does appear to be intermittent though as after about an hour's driving they started to work again on the other speeds as did the washers. After being parked...

Dec 2016, file name is Map_25013789187_Update weighing in at 23.2GB (25,017,607,943 bytes).

Same for me, 3.0 & F8 on a 17.

I think you will find that the initial 3 years manufacturer warranty follows the car regardless of owner.

I don't know exactly what the factory value is but it will be around 12% may be as high as 20%. Windscreen can be tinted but must have an VLT of 75% when done. Probably only useful for cutting out UV.

About 80%.

When you see a window tint being referred to as a percentage, this is the Visible Light Transmission (the percentage of light that the film allows to pass through), e.g. 45% film has a VLT of 45%. To calculate the actual Visible Light Transmission of the glass plus film, you need to mutiply...

Im sure you know that's not how it works!

OTT stripe and black accents for comparison purposes.