LED tail light teardown - Anyone ever resealed one of these?

[Overlander21]

My two month old car appears to have a leaking tail light.

YouTube has shown me that removal of the light unit is quite possibly the easiest job in the world, but has anyone then stripped the light unit down and re-sealed it?

This is probably a warranty issue but man... my dealer is a 2hr round trip just for them to look at it, then wait however many weeks for them to get the part in and then another 2hr round trip to drop it off then another 2hrs trip to collect it. All in all, that means I have to take a day off work just for this

If I can fix it myself I'd rather do that, but at the worst I'll go to the dealers.

Any tips for sealing? Any recommended adhesives?

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[brewski]

I wouldn't mess with it. 2hr trip to have it resolved with a proper replacement sounds better than spending hours figuring out how to do, buying materials and doing the work for something that will definitely void any warranty and might not fix the issue.

I would imagine the dealer could work with you to reduce it to 1 trip.

 

[Overlander21]

doing the work for something that will definitely void any warranty

Yeah that's a risk alright, and I just looked at the price for a replacement (with blindspot sensors) and they're USD$599 each

I might ring the dealer and see if they'll accept photographs as proof and order a unit in advance for me, without me having to drive there.

Not sure what the UK dealerships are like, I'm about to find out I guess

 

[brewski]

I might ring the dealer and see if they'll accept photographs as proof and order a unit in advance for me, without me having to drive there.

Not sure what the UK dealerships are like, I'm about to find out I guess

yeah that is what I was thinking. In the USA I think most dealers would work with you on this, but I have no clue how warranty things go in the UK

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