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Old Nov 3, 2016 | 04:02 AM
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Condensation Inside the lights
Hi Guys
Its been about a month since i bought my new C class and loving it so far. Driving it around today on a rainy day, noticed some condensation inside the glass cover on the front headlights and wanted to get some feedback about this. First of all i would presume it would affect the brightness of the lights and secondly further fasten the damage of the internal lights systems, do correct me if i am wrong and any advice would be much appreciated.
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Old Nov 3, 2016 | 07:57 AM
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I get this. I also see it on my BMW and Toyota. It has no impact I'm able to determine.
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Old Nov 3, 2016 | 07:59 AM
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Confirmed as normal to me by the dealer first time it happened to me..dries out with usage of the lights..
So maybe flick em on and out of auto mode to resolve..
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Old Nov 3, 2016 | 08:02 AM
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In searching the manual about my cargo lights, I saw a statement that condensation may form inside the headlights and not to worry about it unless it never goes away.
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Old Nov 3, 2016 | 08:12 AM
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The headlights are open to the atmosphere. With the lights on it should evaporate fairly quickly.

This has been a thing with LED for a long time now.
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Had the same problem, turned out to be a open service bulletin. Headlight caps had to be replaced to prevent this from happening.
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Hello,
Same issue here, do you think this is normal?


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once the sun comes out, they will dry out... no worries.
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