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Moist in taillight enclosure

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Right taillight shows up water condensate since first driving in rain back in May.

Its growing worse and of course not right. Was at the dealers shop a month or maybe 6 weeks ago and got the very contrived advice always to drive with the dipped headlight on so that the heat from the (5 watt?) lamp should dry out the enclosure. "Thats a problem with modern cars".. Of course I never turn on the light daytime as the car is equipped with LED DRL. Neither have hot summer sunlight made any difference. Whatta schmuck that shop foreman is, but cheaper to talk warranty issues away it is. (I never leave my cars at that authorized shop, but as this is a new car under warranty I have to.)

Left enclosure of course is bone dry.

Back today with very moist enclosure, asking for a better explanation. Had to raise the voice a little but got a time for a repair.

Guess theres a displaced sealing in there, either for venting or draining.

Anyone having similar problems? With the taillights, not the shop ;)

nice title, made me look anyway.

slightly disappointed with the content if I'm honest :D

I don't have that problem, but we're having between 35-40 degrees these days. There's something else that I dislike and it happens on all Fabias (or at least also on mine and one owned by a colleague): at around 90 km/h there's a high pitched sound generated by the wind and coming from the left side of the car (maybe the mirror?).

Edited by zup

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