xusforlife

Last year I bought a new left hand LED tail light (the one thats on the cargo door). For some months the middle column of LEDs went out but sometime came to life as if there was a bad connection within it. When someone then put a fracture in the outer clear plastic I bought a new one.

A few days ago I discovered that the other right hand LED tail lights middle LED column went out the same way...

It this some kind of really poor connectivity or some wider spread problem which should be handled via a TSB?

xusforlife

Updated with a couple of pictures

Array of three gone dark.


Array of three lit up after a soft tap on it.

rcy

Hmm...I'll have to look at my vehicle and see if it's done this. At a quick glance you might not even notice this since the other lights around are all still on. Sad thing is, I think you have to replace the whole unit, you can't just replace the three lights.

xusforlife

I've replaced the left unit already.
But when the other side unit, within a year, suffered from the same mid array blackout I thought that this might be a wide spread problem.

rcy

Interestingly, when I checked my lights, I discovered that one LED was out on the driver's side rear lights that are on the hatch. However, it wasn't the row that's out like yours, it was one single light at the very bottom to the left of the middle row. When I tapped on the light housing, it lit back up. Loose wire, solder or something?

xusforlife

Thanks. So the problems are somewhat spread.
Not the same LED but it do lit up again like mine when tapping it.

The whole light unit looks sealed so I've not been able to get into the one I replaced and kept.
My guess is a bad solder.

I dont like to by expensive replacements of something that should not need to be replaced in the first place.

smassey321

The dealer replaced one of mine under warranty last month. As LEDs are not bulbs, they were covered.