Fabia Mk 3 LED running lights headlight replacement

[Morris8]

Hello Everyone. My wife recently purchased 2016 1.2  tsi 90 Colour Edition Fabia which has these fancy LED running lights running along the bottom of the headlight unit. Given these look sealed into the unit,  I can't see anyway of replacing them should they fail. So do I assume that I have to replace the whole headlight unit (a few hundred quid) if one of these LED bulbs fails?  Another masterpiece of modern engineering?

 

Thanks

[Planetse]

Same as many new cars on the road today. New headlight unit. But they last years. 

 

[TerFar]

Don't worry about them. Leds last thousands of hours and have no vulnerable filament to fail like QHs. They're more likely to need replacement from physical breakage than failure. 

[Morris8]

Many thanks for these replies.  As someone whose first cars had 6 volt systems and no flashing indicators it's taking me sometime to adapt to modern motoring!

[TerFar]

Me too. You either stuck out your arm or relied on the trafficators that were forever getting stuck!

 

The Dip switch was on the floor, and the screen washer (if you were lucky enough to have one) was on the floor too. 

 

We've moved on a long way from crossply tyres, unassisted drum brakes all round and hideously vague steering! 

[Morris8]

Indeed, not to mention all that decoking and valve grinding; and it is nice not to need a starting handle in the depths or winter, or have those lovely Ford Pop vacuum wipers that come to a stop when you're going up hill!

[TerFar]

You didn't use Carbide Lamps then? 😉

[RickW]

My 1959 Austin A40 is like a time machine,and a complete dinosaur in this modern age.

[Morris8]

No I must admit I didn't use carbide lamps; even my Morris 8 had those new fangled electric bulb things. And I well remember some very dubious pub crawls in my mate's A40 Farina. Happy days!

[Warrior193]

On 25/02/2021 at 12:05, TerFar said:

Me too. You either stuck out your arm or relied on the trafficators that were forever getting stuck!

 

The Dip switch was on the floor, and the screen washer (if you were lucky enough to have one) was on the floor too. 

 

We've moved on a long way from crossply tyres, unassisted drum brakes all round and hideously vague steering! 

I rather liked the floor-mounted dip switch - just the right position, under left foot, when driving. 

[rum4mo]

On 26/02/2021 at 19:13, Warrior193 said:

I rather liked the floor-mounted dip switch - just the right position, under left foot, when driving. 

 

Yes, handy when your foot was doing nothing else, also Ford Escort MK1 had a rubber bulb(pump) on the floor for the windscreen washer fluid, surrounded with a ring for switching the single wipe on - very handy just even for the single wipe if your left foot was doing nothing else!

 

Vacuum wipers, I think that Renault tried that silly game as well, what were they thinking about!!