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- NE Indiana
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- '16 CX-5 GT FWD
So let's put some numbers to the figures floating around here in this thread. 50,000 hours lifetime for an LED. If you drive 20,000 miles per year (above the national average) and only average 20 mph (you're stuck in traffic most of the time) your DRL's will be on 1,000 hours per year. That's 50 years worth of lighting from the LED's. Even if the the LED's only last 25,000 hours it's 25 years. So the LED's themselves aren't the problem.
But there is an issue with some 2016 LED DRL's from "apparently by either poor design and/or inferior parts". The problem for me is I haven't seen any failure analysis or similar to really know what the problem is (or was). Some component out of spec? Pushing a component past its ability? At this point who knows? Hopefully Mazda/Stanley knows. You can bet Mazda went back to Stanley (the maker of the assembly) and asked WTF?
At this point the important question for a 2017-18 buyer/owner is, did Mazda/Stanley (assuming Stanley is making the new assembly) learn from the past? I bet they did. You may not think so. To each their own.
But there is an issue with some 2016 LED DRL's from "apparently by either poor design and/or inferior parts". The problem for me is I haven't seen any failure analysis or similar to really know what the problem is (or was). Some component out of spec? Pushing a component past its ability? At this point who knows? Hopefully Mazda/Stanley knows. You can bet Mazda went back to Stanley (the maker of the assembly) and asked WTF?
At this point the important question for a 2017-18 buyer/owner is, did Mazda/Stanley (assuming Stanley is making the new assembly) learn from the past? I bet they did. You may not think so. To each their own.