Steamed Up Lights

Post by **hammy969** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 6:04 pm

Good Afternoon All

I have attached a few pictures of my lights. I am looking to hear if any of you have had any similar issues with your lights and what you did about it.

Post by **RSphantom** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 7:13 pm

Yes, it's happened on mine, especially when I've cleaned it on a cold day (warm water, cold temps etc). Usually goes by itself especially if the lights are on to get some heat in the lenses. It's happened on other cars to but I don't worry to much about it especially this time of year. Now in the middle of June that would be different....

Post by **P_G** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:31 pm

Ditto; same with the rears.

Post by **geek** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 9:02 am

+1. (Off side front cluster only)

Only when I wash it so far and dries out pretty quickly.

If it happens in warmer weather / normal driving conditions I will talk to the stealer about it and push for a replacement.

I have had this before on a BMW and got it replaced under warranty.

Post by **535dboy** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 10:55 am

Ecav emailed me about this last night on his RS4

Mine does it but if you read the manual it states it can be normal in some countries so don't worry

They have breather holes in them

Post by **hammy969** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:07 pm

Cheers guys. Good to hear I am not the only one.
535dboy obvious school boy error here, should have read the manual!

Post by **535dboy** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:28 pm

hammy969 wrote:Cheers guys. Good to hear I am not the only one.
535dboy obvious school boy error here, should have read the manual!

To be fair it was all coincidence.

He emailed asking me

I was looking in my manual to check something about the running in bit and stumbled over the bit about the lights so took photo and emailed him

To be honest my lotus does it for a pass time but then again it is made in England.......

Post by **Bacardi Jo** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 1:55 pm

It happens in my S4 as well.

Post by **Carrg** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 2:21 pm

Yep same here. Very noticable this time of year!

Post by **gdavison** » Tue Jan 08, 2013 8:07 pm

Hope its not like the old RS6 C6 Condensation problem .. which eventually killed your DRL, requiring most of us to get headlights replaced under a recall

Post by **WillRS** » Sun Jan 13, 2013 12:48 pm

I had a lot of condensation in my passenger side headlamp - they replaced it under warranty as whilst a small amount of condensation is within Audi's "acceptable" limits (apparently), this was half way up the unit and never went away !

Camberley Audi changed it whilst doing the airvent / brake recall thing and its been fine ever since..

Post by **johnnyo** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:06 pm

Same on my new a4.... Dealer said they all do that sir.... Should clear once lights are on.

Post by **geek** » Tue Jan 22, 2013 10:27 pm

johnnyo wrote:Same on my new a4.... Dealer said they all do that sir.... Should clear once lights are on.

My favourite stealer quote.

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