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Mostly a pull on mine does a squirt and wipe but occasionally it does just squirt so needs an up or down motion :) Maybe it depends if it's on the auto wipe setting which mine usually is.

^ +1 MY2005

Or the washer fluid is leaking into the motor.

Unless the pipe has come off and you have to fish it out ...

Non return valve has been known to stick closed.

Not according to Rave. That's why some sensors have 3 wires and some have 6. Mine only has 3.

You'll soon find out when you look at the bulbs :)

Don't think they were fitted to cars with HID's so you may not find one :) The height sensors will have 6 wires if the car has one. If there are only 3 wires it won't have one.

Pull the stalk or press the button for the front, push away from you for the rear

That is correct for MY2005. You push the stalk forward for rear window. Assume 2012 is the same.

Years ago, before some folks were born.. bulbs.. that weren't as bright as they are now, had black tips to stop you looking directly at the light source.. why don't modern, brighter and more damaging bulbs have the same!?

Probably. Or someone with a known working diag tool.

Every lamp in the house is LED but, in the car, OK in the reversing lights, having said that I did have a look at the Philips H7 LEDs then read the reviews and, some complained of flickering and even complete failure after a couple of months...

None of the new lights comply with the construction and use regs that used to apply to light output. Have the regs changed? If not, all the new headlights are technically illegal. I'm all in favour of LED lighting unless one LED failure means...

What diagnostic tool did you use? It needs to be LR specific but assume you already know that.

Like many older drivers I hate today's brilliant headlights, to the point that I try sticking to well lit roads on the few occasions that a night journey is essential. My eyes are tested annually & meet DVLA requirements. What I don't understand...

The distance between them depends on the road. I've driven a few different makes and found some are better than others. I have to assume they were pointed correctly or they wouldn't pass an mot. The lights on the p38 were great, the ones on the...

A while ago I flashed a parked up taxi cos he was on the left facing me with headlights on so he decided to go main beam to be an even bigger prick. Needless to say my Disco with additional front spots won the competition.

Yes absolutely true. It's hard not to look at the light because it's the natural focal point. Even if it's only a brief moment, it's enough to temporarily blind you for several seconds. What worse is when the incoming car (it's nearly always a...

You comment reminds me of some occupational training I did a fair few years ago, the context isn't important. Humans have a moth-like attraction to look into the source of light - especially moving light, be it an eclipse, checking the torch is...

according to google cats eyes are 20m apart and a headlight should reach 100m so maybe you have a problem with you lights or your eyesight :)

You could if you had brighter headlights than the one coming towards you :)

At least now you can see further, drive faster, and crash more safely than ever before :)

They are great on perfectly flat roads. As soon as there's any undulation/gradient then the cutoff point from the incoming vehicle rises above your eyes level and you're blinded as you look directly into the arc of the HID

I argue that brighter lights don't always make things better ie 'beam effect' or 'tunnel blindness' where the lights is bright enough that your eyes can't see outside the directly lit area

I've fitted these to both of mine, it's worth noting that correctly assembled LED replacement lamps will not change the beam pattern, spread or focal length. Just to be sure, I checked both of mine on the MoT standard headlight alignment checker...

Yes but according to a quick google search it just says as long as it doesn't dazzle other drivers. I suspect lots of the ones that dazzle are poorly designed cheap imports.

These may be suitable https://www.classiccarleds.co.uk/products/d1s-hid-to-led-conversion-kit-8600lm-6000k-daylight-white-replacement-for-oem-hid-zenon?srsltid=AfmBOoocbQoTrI3t-1naHRnzJWjPFqYte_Vr_m6mw8JXqvKw3Ab5SNbQ

I suspect anything massively brighter would be illegal.