Actually it looks way better than it feels on the road, because of the suspension. Thanks a lot. I'll try looking into the wiper motor this weekend and see what I can do.
Also, I've manage to restore back seats to mint condition. What happened to the seats wasn't actually any worn, but because they weren't used at all and California is pretty sunny, they dried up a lot. They started coming apart on stitches and leather was super dry. I talked to my friend which actually works with leather after hours (all the belts and small leather stuff he makes by himself) and he recommended me using Nivea cream to get them to normal condition. However this shouldn't be done too often, mostly it's technique used for moisturizing super old and dry leather once, so later on you can continue maintaining it properly once a quarter.
I recommend the method for people who are actually brave enough to try it. I did that couple of years back in my E39 and effect is still there and there's nothing wrong going back there, so that's why I proceeded with same solution for my new toy. No leather conditioner helped me restore that the way Nivea did. All those conditioners helped for couple of days and it went back to the same state it was before so I was kind of desperate.
Here's small howto:
First, you have to use some good non-greasy non-moisturizing leather cleaner to get all the stuff out of the seats. Spray it all over the seats, leave it for 5 minutes and clean it out. Leave the car open for an hour or so, so seats can be perfectly dry and start putting thick coat of Nivea on them. By thick I mean something between 1 to 2mm. 1 seat is 1 small Nivea pack (the size you can see on the photo below). You leave the car like that for two nights. After that it should be already dry and mostly in the seats, wipe it off. Leave it for an hour to completely dry and use leather cleaner (this time it's best to use all-in-one cleaners) again to get all the grease out of the seats. I recommend doing that a couple of times for couple of days (like 5 days, once per day), because for the first two days seats have tendency to sweat Nivea and are too shiny (even though when you touch shiny spot, you don't even have greasy fingers).
Bonus for people actually liking the smell - it stays in the car for a week. I'm one of those people.
On photos:
One seat is work in progress, the other one is after. Unfortunately, I don't have any pics of 'before', however you didn't even have to touch the seat to notice it's super dry and stitching almost gave up.
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For some people it might be too risky or simply just bad by design, but works for me and it's the 2nd car I did that in.