Day time running led not working, possible water damage or?

[JakubG26]

Hey all,

So i recently removed the head lamp unit to troubleshoot if the led board was fried as one of them was not working (driver side working, passenger side not working).

I would get an error on my dash saying to check my day time running lights upon turning the ignition on, and at first the led would work sometimes and sometimes it didn’t work. This continued for some months until eventually it stopped working completely.

Swapping the boards around told me it was not the LED board that was broken as it worked on the driver side.

Checking the head lamp connector revealed some corrosion on two of the pins. Does anyone know why this could happen?

 

[Seriously?]

Hey all,

So i recently removed the head lamp unit to troubleshoot if the led board was fried as one of them was not working (driver side working, passenger side not working).

I would get an error on my dash saying to check my day time running lights upon turning the ignition on, and at first the led would work sometimes and sometimes it didn’t work. This continued for some months until eventually it stopped working completely.

Swapping the boards around told me it was not the LED board that was broken as it worked on the driver side.

Checking the head lamp connector revealed some corrosion on two of the pins. Does anyone know why this could happen?

I would guess that as you suspect, water is getting in. You can clean up the terminals by giving the socket a good spray of switch cleaner

and then 'making' and 'breaking' the connection a few times by plugging and unplugging the connectors to clean up the contacts. Maybe some electrical tape round the join of the two parts of the connector once put back together ?

 

[JakubG26]

I shall give this clean and break in of the switch a go on the weekend, hopefully the weather holds up. Many thanks!