It's LED isn't it- therefore it's a whole new unit
I believe it's multiple surface mount LEDs in a sealed unit, which in practical terms means you've got to replace the whole thing.It is led! Didn’t realise that it would be a whole new unit!
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Mine (on my Kuga) was led and the casing was two parts but welded together. Being curious though I took it apart (never to go back together again!!) to find a number of leds (surface mount type so not easily available) failed.
Seems that the 'throw away' society is growing......
Yes, but there seems to be plans to try to reverse that slightly by making someone pay a lot more for waste disposal, and so people - do we call them people, take a drive out to the countryside and dump their waste - nice!
As is normal with any newish technology, when LEDs were introduced to main stream products, it quickly became evident that there were still a high level of failure, but in reality, I'd think, the LED were fault free and it was the structure that they were soldered/welded into that had failed, like simple water getting in and rusting through the array back board, or inline resistors failing or parallel resistors fitted to keep the load heavy failing, or associated power supplies failing - that last one seems to kill off domestic LED "bulbs" after a few years. As usual dummies taking up the newish tech and integrating it into their products with no concern about how it achieve the increased reliability that should come with the move to LED lights.
Not sure you'd get away with it...but quote the handbook -
"Bulbs
Bulbs (12 V)
Note: Depending on the level of equipment
fitted in the vehicle, LEDs may be used for
part or all of the interior and/or exterior lighting.
LEDs have an estimated life that exceeds
that of the vehicle. If an LED light fails, go to
an authorised workshop for its replacement."
Fair point but I'd like to think you'd get a replacement in warranty...cant get that on a blown bulb from other OEM's.