I was hoping this would be an easy fix. Thanks for digging into it. Hopefully Ford makes this right. I'll see how much longer I can deal with the issue before I just pull the trigger on some Morimotos. Thanks again. 🤙
Yes, I was hoping it would be "easier" than it has been so far! Not done yet, but still no resolution as of now. Thank you for your comment and support!!
Yep! Gotta figure out an easy way to get the lens off these things, and then see if there is an replacement LED board/array tube that can be bought. That will be the challenge.
I have a 21 F-150 Lariat. 116,000 miles on it and about 3 months ago the driver side vertical Drl quit working and now a week or so ago the passenger side vertical quit working. I really appreciate you digging into this. Can’t find anything else about it anywheres. Several questions I have. It looks like the simplest fix is going to be a whole new assembly. How much will one of those cost? If a person does buy a whole new assembly, would they have to hook up a computer to connect the board to the pickup? Another question, why just the vertical tube not working. I’ve noticed other pickups on the road and it’s the vertical on those that aren’t working either. Why not the horizontal? A different note, some are questioning if maybe ford did an update and it messed something up or something like that. Kinda curious about that myself. When are everyone’s lights quitting on them? Same time?
Man i just got this grill installed and one of the headlight drl, driver side vertical, not working after the install.... They said it wasnt them and just coincidence.. then i see its common.. but so dang weird.
Perfect storm man. Same as it working just fine for 37K miles, through summers, winters, wet, dry... and then one night... boom! Its dead! Quality control is my thesis.
I have not had an opportunity to open one up, but it would appear this affects the Quad LED housings more than any other. There are some random projector beam people who have had the issue, but mainly seems to be the Quads. I would love to be able to tear into a projector beam housing and see if they are the same.
So lights start over heating and meltng to the point of failure and Ford shortly after realeses an update to dim the brightness of the DLR. Hmmm almost like Ford knows its a manufacturing/engineering issue and are trying to cover it up before it becomes widespread.
That seems plausible. Whats weird is how long it takes to occur. You would think if hot LEDs were going to melt the plastic, it wouldnt take 3 years and 40K miles to do so.
152k and my driver side just stopped working. Seems if it were mileage/wear would have happened before now. Makes me more suspicious it’s update related.
I believe its more quality control issues. The LED board in my light that I tore down was actually a little loose. I could totally see it being loose enough to contact the array tube and melt it under the right circumstances.
Yes, many of the ones I have bought also have fans. These are so small though, they shouldnt require them. Plus, that would be one more dash alert people would be bringing in their vehicles for, "LED Headlight Fan Issue, Please see dealer immediately! " HAHA.
I was hoping this would be an easy fix. Thanks for digging into it. Hopefully Ford makes this right. I'll see how much longer I can deal with the issue before I just pull the trigger on some Morimotos. Thanks again. 🤙
Yes, I was hoping it would be "easier" than it has been so far! Not done yet, but still no resolution as of now. Thank you for your comment and support!!
Lets keep on going , almost there !!!
Yep! Gotta figure out an easy way to get the lens off these things, and then see if there is an replacement LED board/array tube that can be bought. That will be the challenge.
I have a 21 F-150 Lariat. 116,000 miles on it and about 3 months ago the driver side vertical Drl quit working and now a week or so ago the passenger side vertical quit working. I really appreciate you digging into this. Can’t find anything else about it anywheres. Several questions I have. It looks like the simplest fix is going to be a whole new assembly. How much will one of those cost? If a person does buy a whole new assembly, would they have to hook up a computer to connect the board to the pickup? Another question, why just the vertical tube not working. I’ve noticed other pickups on the road and it’s the vertical on those that aren’t working either. Why not the horizontal? A different note, some are questioning if maybe ford did an update and it messed something up or something like that. Kinda curious about that myself. When are everyone’s lights quitting on them? Same time?
Do you still have the one you took apart? What do you want for it?
@diy1978guy?
Man i just got this grill installed and one of the headlight drl, driver side vertical, not working after the install.... They said it wasnt them and just coincidence.. then i see its common.. but so dang weird.
Perfect storm man. Same as it working just fine for 37K miles, through summers, winters, wet, dry... and then one night... boom! Its dead! Quality control is my thesis.
I wonder how much the adaptive headlights differ, since they do not seem to experience this issue at least as much.
I have not had an opportunity to open one up, but it would appear this affects the Quad LED housings more than any other. There are some random projector beam people who have had the issue, but mainly seems to be the Quads. I would love to be able to tear into a projector beam housing and see if they are the same.
So you had to just buy a new one?
So lights start over heating and meltng to the point of failure and Ford shortly after realeses an update to dim the brightness of the DLR. Hmmm almost like Ford knows its a manufacturing/engineering issue and are trying to cover it up before it becomes widespread.
That seems plausible. Whats weird is how long it takes to occur. You would think if hot LEDs were going to melt the plastic, it wouldnt take 3 years and 40K miles to do so.
152k and my driver side just stopped working. Seems if it were mileage/wear would have happened before now. Makes me more suspicious it’s update related.
I believe its more quality control issues. The LED board in my light that I tore down was actually a little loose. I could totally see it being loose enough to contact the array tube and melt it under the right circumstances.
@@DIY1978Guythanks for the reply
Interesting that there is no cooling fan on the LEDs, the quality LEDs that I have bought have fans integrated into them.
Yes, many of the ones I have bought also have fans. These are so small though, they shouldnt require them. Plus, that would be one more dash alert people would be bringing in their vehicles for, "LED Headlight Fan Issue, Please see dealer immediately! " HAHA.
I have the same issue on my 2021 F150
So the whole headlight assy has to be replaced
20k hours i have on my truck... Prob more important to note
I have no idea how many hours I have, but mine had a little over 36K or so when it went out.
I got 60k and my driver side just went out.
@@Hellmuthsilva my father in law is out too on one side