OEM Headlight Condensation
02-03-2019, 07:46 PM
#1
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OEM Headlight Condensation
About 3 months ago I put in LED bulbs on my 2018 XLT SCREW non led Headlights. All was fine up till about a week ago. Condensation started to appear. I bought a larger dust cover and cleared the condensation. Same day condensation. Cleared it again and then condensation came back.
i can’t figure it out. Any ideas? Looks to me all is sealed and not rain that would be causing it.
i can’t figure it out. Any ideas? Looks to me all is sealed and not rain that would be causing it.
02-07-2019, 07:24 AM
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The owners manual says that it is but seems like mine is extreme. I was hoping someone found a solution. I went on a long drive yesterday and ran my high beams which are halogen to heat the housing and hopefully aid evaporation. It kind of went away but this morning it’s back again in force.
I know the seals are in good and I have the extended ones on so my assumption is I drive to short of drives each day to completely remove the condensation and now it’s in a very unattractive cycle.
I know the seals are in good and I have the extended ones on so my assumption is I drive to short of drives each day to completely remove the condensation and now it’s in a very unattractive cycle.
02-07-2019, 09:00 AM
#5
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I would try to have those warrantied.
02-07-2019, 09:19 AM
#6
Ford's policy says that condensation is normal up until the point that you see the trails where the water is running down. The above image appears to have those trails and should be warrantable.
02-07-2019, 09:26 AM
#7
The owners manual says that it is but seems like mine is extreme. I was hoping someone found a solution. I went on a long drive yesterday and ran my high beams which are halogen to heat the housing and hopefully aid evaporation. It kind of went away but this morning it’s back again in force.
I know the seals are in good and I have the extended ones on so my assumption is I drive to short of drives each day to completely remove the condensation and now it’s in a very unattractive cycle.
I know the seals are in good and I have the extended ones on so my assumption is I drive to short of drives each day to completely remove the condensation and now it’s in a very unattractive cycle.
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02-07-2019, 09:32 AM
#8
Just to be sure, when you're heating your headlights up with the high beams, are you doing it with the dust covers off? It seems you would need to do that to allow the humid air to escape. I would try to pull the dust covers, heat them up with either the high beams or a blow dryer really well, and then put the covers back on while it's still good and hot. If that humid Florida air just goes right back in there before you put your covers on, you'd probably end up with condensation.
02-07-2019, 09:48 AM
#9
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Throw a bag of desiccant in the dust cover.
02-07-2019, 10:01 AM
#10
Yep, you're right. Looks like they should vent themselves once they get heated enough, assuming there was a normal amount of condensation to begin with. I still can't help but to think this is related to the LED bulb install, since search results for excessive condensation often times pull up threads where people have installed LED bulbs (especially in cases where the dust covers aren't re-seated properly).