Fitting aftermarket 2010 face lift lights
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Fitting aftermarket 2010 face lift lights
Good Evening Guys & Gals,
Im fairly new to Mercedes and the Forum have been a BMW guy since ive been driving and 6 months ago i purchased my first mercedes (S-Class W221).
About 6 months ago when i bought the car i bought some DEPO lights for it however i found that when fitted to the car no matter how i tried they leaked water and allowed water to seep into the boot. When i put hte originals back on this promptly stopped was very unusual.
I have now purchased a set of eagle eyes and am keen for this not to happen again can anyone offer fitting instructions or guidance and advice?
Do i need to take the rubber seals of the original light and attach them to the aftermarkets? The eagle eyes look like they come with a rubber type seal already attached is this alone going to be enough to keep the water out etc?
Thanks in advance for reading this look forward to hearing from all of you
Im fairly new to Mercedes and the Forum have been a BMW guy since ive been driving and 6 months ago i purchased my first mercedes (S-Class W221).
About 6 months ago when i bought the car i bought some DEPO lights for it however i found that when fitted to the car no matter how i tried they leaked water and allowed water to seep into the boot. When i put hte originals back on this promptly stopped was very unusual.
I have now purchased a set of eagle eyes and am keen for this not to happen again can anyone offer fitting instructions or guidance and advice?
Do i need to take the rubber seals of the original light and attach them to the aftermarkets? The eagle eyes look like they come with a rubber type seal already attached is this alone going to be enough to keep the water out etc?
Thanks in advance for reading this look forward to hearing from all of you
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Forgot to mention i didn't bother trying to fit the left hand side light originally only the right driver side and it allowed water in i really should have tried both at the time!! Any help for fitting advice will be greatly appreciated just to make sure.
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I just installed these Depo face lift lights today. I noticed that at the top of the lights, there are vertical fins instead of a smooth surface like on the original tail lights. This seems like a strange design since at the top corner where they meet the car next to the trunk, it looks like water can leak through.
Does anybody who has installed these know if this was intentional design? Or is it some sort of design flaw? I ended up putting on some 3M double sided tape in the area prior to mounting the light to try and seal off that area. I sure hope I don't get any leaks.
Does anybody who has installed these know if this was intentional design? Or is it some sort of design flaw? I ended up putting on some 3M double sided tape in the area prior to mounting the light to try and seal off that area. I sure hope I don't get any leaks.
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I installed the Depos about a year ago and haven't had any issues with leaks (two Florida summers so far). Mine had rubber gaskets like the OEM ones, so no difference there. Is it possible they weren't tightened all the way?
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Mine have the rubber/foam gaskets that seal (hopefully) the hole where the electrical connections come into the trunk like the OEM's too. I just installed mine, so they never had a chance to leak. But I can understand the complaints that others had about leaking as the top edges have vertical slats instead of a smooth edge. No matter how I tried to tighten them, there was still a 1/2 inch or so spot in the top corner where a little of those slats were exposed. I could see that water could easily get down there, so my solution was putting a strip of double sided 3M tape (the kind with the thin layer of foam) over those slats so that water can't get through there. Having the slats along that top edge seems like a strange/poor design to me.
