Hi guys,

 

Just curious if anyone here has tried to remove the Mk4  front fog light assembly  in the past? 

 

My left front fog light has lots of water droplets inside permanently for a few months  now and it looks awful. It doesn't evaporate with heat/sunlight. Winter weather now is not helping.

 

 

Trying to see if it's simple enough to remove without removing the whole bumper. Any service manual floating around?

 

47 minutes ago, jaspertvrs said:

Hi guys,

 

Just curious if anyone here has tried to remove the Mk4  front fog light assembly  in the past? 

 

My left front fog light has lots of water droplets inside permanently for a few months  now and it looks awful. It doesn't evaporate with heat/sunlight. Winter weather now is not helping.

 

 

Trying to see if it's simple enough to remove without removing the whole bumper. Any service manual floating around?

 

I had exactly the same problem on the same year  as yours and was done under warranty 

Hi guys,

 

Yes, suffered it out of warranty and, after trying to fix it, I bought a new one. You can remove it without removing the bumper, but you have to lift the car, remove wheel and wheel housing liner. In addition, to free the wheel housing liner properly, you will have to unscrew partially the engine underbody trim.

 

I tried to dismount the fog light first applying heat with a heat gun on the perimeter and second applying pressure on latches to release the external cover but it was so sealed and the latches were so weak that I broke 3 of 4. If I was struggling just to open it, imagine to close it and seal it again. So game over, new one.

 

 

hi Mario,

 

Thanks for sharing your experience and issue trying to remove it.  I was hoping it would be a bit easier.

 

It's due for a service in the coming months and I will try my luck to see if they can fix it under warranty.  If not, I will have a go eventually.  

If you are covered by the warranty then don't be worried, it's up to Skoda to fix.

I have issues with mine. On the same side as you. It had water inside for the whole winter. Unfortunately mine is already out of the warranty. I already bought a new one a few months ago and was waiting for the right moment to change it. But a month ago I tried to dry it out with a hairdryer and since then it has been without any water. Need to rethink if I will change it or not.

I had tried the hair dryer too a few weeks ago and the moisture/  droplets reduced by quite a bit at the time  but overnight, it's back on the front panel. 

Edited 17 June, 20241 yr by jaspertvrs

Yes, tried as well but not solved the problem. It's true that part of the water evaporated itself during summer but not all, and the rest came and go in cycles as @jaspertvrs says, specially  when cold. 

I do not know if that was the trigger or not, but when I dismounted the lamp one of its outer corners, the upper one if I remember well, was not properly sitting on its frame, slightly out of were it was intended to be.

 

Edited 17 June, 20241 yr by Mario_Delgado

14 hours ago, jaspertvrs said:

hi Mario,

 

Thanks for sharing your experience and issue trying to remove it.  I was hoping it would be a bit easier.

 

It's due for a service in the coming months and I will try my luck to see if they can fix it under warranty.  If not, I will have a go eventually.  

Mine have stayed dry, so far. Yours should be fixed under warranty really, also if a headlight is holding water/condensation inside the lens it would be a RWC fail. Not certain if same applies to fog lights, but it might. Anyhow, it might bolster your case if there's an argument! 

Wife's 2021 model had the same issue, it got replaced under warranty when it went in for the heat mat/shield recall.

Thanks guys. It's due for Its 3 years service next month and I will flag it for warranty  fix when I  book it.

On 18/06/2024 at 21:34, jaspertvrs said:

Thanks guys. It's due for Its 3 years service next month and I will flag it for warranty  fix when I  book it.

 

Had the car serviced today and the fog light unit will be replaced at a later date. 

Reposting again, just passed my first TUV check and I was expecting it ... front right fog light should be horizontally recalibrated. Do you know if there is a maintenance manual entry in the workshop manual for fog light recalibration?

I had this but it cleared on its own and hasn’t come back