Greetings All Friends;

First of all, I would like to say that I love my vehicle.

All of the new chassis Skoda Superbs have headlight melting problem and no service knows about it.

Look at your car headlights from the bottom up and be ready, where the leds are located at the top, the second led begins to melt the bright part of the headlight. In all the vehicles I have looked at, they have all melted in the service on the street and no vehicle owner is aware of this. The reason is that the leds stay under the headlight bowl and melt it due to the heat.

 

Edited 23 May, 20224 yr by cheezemonkhai
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Can you post another picture from a little further out please?

@AYES  Welcome.

 

There are plenty members here in various countries with the cars and they can tell you if their cars have the issue.

It is certainly not all cars that will have this.

 

 

 

I've seen all vehicles in Turkey, I haven't come across one yet.

 

I cannot add a new image. I couldn't find where to add it.

You can add another image in a new post, as you won't be able to add to your first post.

 

 

@AYES You appear to have been trying to add the photo as a 'spoiler' photo - but that's wrong and didn't work either so I've deleted it.

Just use the 'Drag files here to attach, or choose files...' at the bottom left of the message box and hopefully you'll succeed. 👍

When I drag it to the bottom left it doesn't accept it. I couldn't see a button to add.

I have added the link to the links below, you can check it here.

Edited 23 May, 20224 yr by john999boy
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As those links are local to you, they aren't viewable by people on the forum so I've removed them.

Unfortunately, I could not add a picture, but if those who have a vehicle look at the second LED in the right or left headlight when they look at the car from the opposite side, they will see that it has melted.

I looked at the vehicles on the street and in the service center in Turkey, all of them had a melting problem.

I have the Matrix LED headlights and have had the vehicle for 12 months. Just had a close inspection of both headlight enclosures and reflectors, and can see zero melting. All looks as it did when it left the factory,

Possibly a problem with the headlamps in hot countries only?

 

@fencer Is it possible to add pictures of the upper led part of the headlights?

@ApertureS Headlights have a manufacturing defect. The weather has just warmed up here and I'm a daytime user, and I don't drive much in the evenings. The led part in the headlight is under the plastic part and with the newly installed headlights, it has been 200 km and the melting has started. I used it 3 times in total in the evening within 200 km.

@fencer If you are talking about the vehicle in your profile picture, the vehicle has a lens headlight. No problem with the lens headlight. There is also a problem with all LED headlights.

Hello, I am from Bulgaria. I have same problem. All cars with led headlights (not matrix ones) have this issue. Do you know how the problem is solved? Is the warranty cover the change of the headlights?

Mine is doing the same on both sides.  I've a 2021 MY with non-matrix LEDs.  When I saw this post originally, I had a quick look and didn't spot anything.  You need to look at the light from below to see the melting on the upper surface of the reflector.  Second in from the side of the car on both sides. I live in Ireland so obviously not a warm country....

Understood. This is a picture of headlight that the problem is deeper. There is a dust on the reflector. Do you have such problem? Is there any change this dust to be removed by air gun?

Exactly where and As @Legacy said above, mine is a 2020 UK model lowish mileage and although cannot clearly see it by eyesight alone, theres  a small burnt patch at the top and slight grey hazing to  the top of the reflector, visible on a phone/ photo.     Definitely something to keep an eye on as it is likely to deteriorate.

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Its hard to spot in daylight because of the way the reflectors, well, reflect but easily spotted at night with a torch.  There's a small recess and the damage is occurring at the edge of that recess.

 

My warranty expires next month but I don't fancy my chances of persuading the garage staff that the issue is there, unless they view it at night.  I would love to know if there's a TPI about it.  The German Skoda forum is silent about it.

12 hours ago, Shuggyboatsuperb said:

Did you talk to the dealer? I think that Skoda must solve this under warranty.

 

Exactly where and As @Legacy said above, mine is a 2020 UK model lowish mileage and although cannot clearly see it by eyesight alone, theres  a small burnt patch at the top and slight grey hazing to  the top of the reflector, visible on a phone/ photo.     Definitely something to keep an eye on as it is likely to deteriorate.

 

16 hours ago, Legacy said:

Its hard to spot in daylight because of the way the reflectors, well, reflect but easily spotted at night with a torch.  There's a small recess and the damage is occurring at the edge of that recess.

 

My warranty expires next month but I don't fancy my chances of persuading the garage staff that the issue is there, unless they view it at night.  I would love to know if there's a TPI about it.  The German Skoda forum is silent about it.

Hmm raise it with them and Skoda customer services if you have to.

 

Last thing you want to do is fork out loads in the future

According to me there is no Skoda Super with such led headlights In Germany. Their cars are equipped with matrix ones.

 

hi, same problem, Skoda Octavia, 2024, but in my case front mask, bumper and headlights have melted.....

 

Disaster, there is also another topic what i have started on this problem. Melting starts as result of building glass reflection (in my case). But my opinion is that plastic used on my car is less quality from needed...

Thermoplastic melts with heat, that is how it is moulded, what do you mean by less quality than needed?

 

I appreciate that you are writing in a second language.

 

The lowest melting of the range of plastics is that of polystyrene at 170°c, the plastics likely to be used on your bumper, grille and headlights will have melting temperatures around 230°c, more than twice that required to boil water in a plastic kettle.

 

Your car was exposed to extreme temperatures, I'm shocked at how high they were from reflecting sunlight but it would have been at that order of temperature.