Very true. I can never be arsed to top up the screen wash and for some reason on my new punto, when the screen wash is empty it just stops instantly, whereas my old one gave a pathetic dribble prior to emptying completely so at least you had some idea it was on it's way out. So now i regularly have road grit salt fogging up my windscreen...then i attempt to clean said windscreen and i end up with smeared / can't see a bloody thing through it windscreen.
and the auto cancelling indicators are crap too.
pop the little pea cosies on...highly effective