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LED's not hot enough to melt snow while driving!!??

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It’s not so much the light as it is the design of the light bucket. With the headlight recessed so far back, it creates a great bucket for collecting snow. I’ve had oem led lights on the last few vehicles I’ve owned. They were all flush with the front of the car and there were no recessed areas where snow could build up in front of them.
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Interesting point. My first set of LEDs and I will be sure to keep an eye.

Up in Canada so we get lots of snow for sure.
 

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This was a major issue here in the Northeast when they first started using LED traffic lights up here. No, no one thought of the problems that would occur during a winter storm.:facepalm:
 

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Here's a novel concept: Brush the snow off your lights, front and rear, before heading out. Sheesh! :facepalm:
 
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I had to scrape frost off mine once last year. The frost was so thick that the lights wouldn't even shine on the road.

One thing you can do is if you know a snow/ice storm is coming, you can clean the lenses real good and then wipe them with a layer of WD-40. That will help prevent snow/ice from sticking to them to begin with.
 
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Here's a novel concept: Brush the snow off your lights, front and rear, before heading out. Sheesh! :facepalm:
Lights aren't hot enough to melt the snow while driving. Accumulates faster than the lights can melt it.

Thank you however, I never once thought to clear the lights. I mean seriously some people just...
 

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Has this issue been proven? Of the 38 posts I only saw one or two of people actually having experienced the problem. The rest is all speculation and noise. It not the first car to come out with LED lights. We just had one real snow day (3”) and it wasn’t an issue, but that statistically means nothing. Was it wet? Was it dry? Ambience temperature? Etc.
One comment and people just take off like a flock of be headed chicken lol.
 

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The LED diodes do not emit very much heat it is the driver that delivers the heat unfortunately the driver is located behind the led’s
 
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Has this issue been proven? Of the 38 posts I only saw one or two of people actually having experienced the problem. The rest is all speculation and noise. It not the first car to come out with LED lights. We just had one real snow day (3”) and it wasn’t an issue, but that statistically means nothing. Was it wet? Was it dry? Ambience temperature? Etc.
One comment and people just take off like a flock of be headed chicken lol.
I think it's a combination of not enough omitted heat and the deep dish headlight bezel. Most cars(that have led's) have flush mounted lights.

Also, a lot of people haven't had snow yet.

Was fluffy snow nothing major, 31° out.

If happens to a few will happen to everyone else, do we not all drive the same design with the same parts?
 
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The LED diodes do not emit very much heat it is the driver that delivers the heat unfortunately the driver is located behind the led’s
The engine you mean??
 

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Wondering out loud, here... would a coating of RainX help with sticky snow? I assume fluffy snow will not be an issue.
 
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