Broken Wings

I’ve previously blipped about the car windscreen washers packing in, and the temporary solution that was effected until the fault could be properly dealt with. Well today was the day for the system to be stripped down, de-gunged, cleaned and reassembled. And the good news is that has been done and I have a fully functioning screen washer system again.
What I also have is a missing bit of trim. In their wisdom, BMW decided the best place to put a washer bottle (in what was, admittedly, a very cramped engine bay) was in the wheel arch behind the plastic liner. So, to access the washer reservoir you have to take off the wheel, remove the bit of trim on the outside of the wing and then drill out the plastic rivets to release the liner. Once you’ve cleaned it all out, just reverse the process to get everything back to how it was.
Except, the bit of trim broke as it was being removed. Apparently “it’s a known problem area”. Which is dealerspeak for “to be honest, when we designed that bit and hid the screen wash reservoir in the wheel arch, we never expected that you might want to access said reservoir so didn’t think about how easy or difficult it might be to remove the aforesaid piece of trim intact!”
Anyway, a new trim (and fixings) have been ordered and will be fitted FOC next time I’m passing. And it’s a good job it’s FOC as, due to the convoluted process described above, I have already shelled out for an hours worth of labour at main dealer rates. Which is not cheap.
Anyone else remember the days when screenwash bottles were easily accessible in the engine bay and, if they stopped working or got gunged up, the fault was rectified in seconds after a quick visit to the scrappy for a replacement?