Sounds like these were plastic housings' defect, not LED's or circuitries' fault.I cant prove it, but I was told $1100 each...
Both of them were slightly cloudy and what looked like stress cracks around the top edge on the inside.
May be I should check my LED headlight housing to make sure there is no stress cracks like yours. You don't happen to have pictures showing these cracks, do you?You are 100% correct, everything worked,But I thought after having the vehicle only 2 days that they were defective,,,
service manager agreed...
The stress cracks on OP's LED headlights were inside of headlight housing, not the polycarbonate lenses. From my personal experience, there are different quality and longevity among those polycarbonate lenses. The polycarbonate headlight lenses on our 178K-mile '98 Honda CR-V are still clear although they have been exposed under all kind of elements and never garaged. Our '01 VW Passat polycarbonate headlight lenses had yellowed 7 year ago although it has only 57K miles. The polycarbonate headlight lenses on our 2000 BMW 528i are still clear but one of them is leaking water inside.One way to AVOID this is NOT to clean the lenses with alcohol. This is a rookie mistake many new wrappers make, and why GM at one point refused to warranty these exact failures if the lens was wrapped. All of my sports cars got extensive wrap jobs from a competent guy and NONE had this issue as he didn't use anything alcohol based on the polycarbonate lenses.
Soulredcx5. Quite hard to see from the pictures as there is reflection. Are the problems cloudy head lamp and stress crack on the head lamp?
I had mine replaced too from a scuff mark I noticed after I took it home at night. I checked thoroughly during the test drive, but didn't after I signed and drove home at night.
I can't prove it, but I think it happened when they prepped it. I called the next morning and they luckily replaced it free of charge, but I too was told it would have been over $1,000.
It was so new at the time they didn't have parts for it and had to salvage another 2016 on the lot for the lens.
Here is a picture of my lens and the donor car.
Is that Kennedy Mazda in Plymouth Meeting, Pa?
You can see from the hazy parts , it's in the inside, look like mould.. the car is only 2 weeks old.