Late 2016 / Early 2017 S Owners: How Are Your Daytime Running Lights Holding Up?

[fasteddie7]

What did you try? Replace the whole light assembly or pull it apart to fix the one component?

Whole assembly. Originally when I asked, I was told if it was disassembled and one component was replaced it would fail validation and would cease to function entirely.

 

[CraDavis]

Whoa great timing. Mine burned up over the weekend....just got a ping from the service center and figured I'd check here. Looks like it is more common than I expected. MS75 ~ March 2017 build date. Passenger side upper portion of DLR not illuminating.

 

[brkwtz]

I had the drive side unit replaced at 20K miles. I was told that is a $1500 part when not under warranty.

 

[SSonnentag]

December 2017 build.

Driver side replaced at 48,000 miles under warranty.
Now at 61,000 miles and the passenger side is browning.

Waiting for some brave person to modify the lights and post a HOWTO.

 

[atsnyr]

Mine is end of 2017, replaced one side twice, other side once. Now both sides are scheduled for replacement. That's 5 replacements in less than 2 years and just over 30K miles. Hopefully they'll run out of crappy ones before I hit 50K.

 

[_jal_]

From what we gather, the newest MS has the same assembly, right?

 

[pinball_player]

I have had three replacements of my driver's side because of this issue and it is dimmed again.

Something in the design of this part sucks.

 

[Bill Price]

I read most of the the reports here and someone actually said to replace them with the older HID headlights. Has anyone thought of replacing them with the newer headlights from, say a 2018 model (like mine) that are LED but don't utilize the DRL?

 

[⚡️ELECTROMAN⚡️]

I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t replace these out of warranty. I would probably just stick some reflective tape over the burned out strip. My Model S is going to be pretty ghetto in a few years. It’s also going to have yellow bordered screen with a broken browser and I’m going to have crawl in through the hatchback after all of my door handles fail.

 

[boonedocks]

From what we gather, the newest MS has the same assembly, right?

Apparently so. My 2019 Raven S P+L with 11,934 miles has the dreaded eyebrow LED burnout. Scheduled for replacement 10/22/2019

 

[Joelgjr]

Nov 2017
26k miles
Passenger side failed.

 

[Bill Price]

Apparently so. My 2019 Raven S P+L with 11,934 miles has the dreaded eyebrow LED burnout. Scheduled for replacement 10/22/2019

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Holey shamoley! I wasn't aware this affected the newer models! And you have almost 12K miles on a 2019 model? Do you ever park it?

 

[boonedocks]

Holey shamoley! I wasn't aware this affected the newer models! And you have almost 12K miles on a 2019 model? Do you ever park it?

I have an average ~100 mile a day commute and my car is also the family weekend toter car. Tesla has been the best thing to happen to my "commute" ever. Free HOV PayPerUse lane .06 per kWh charging at home and with the new Raven S P+L performance and efficiency and comfort its even lightyears better than my first S85D from '15. The dying headlights though.....still plaguing me....

 

[Hazelwood]

I bet it's something as simple as a resistor burning out. Seems unlikely LED's are dying. Be interesting to take one apart and test out the components.

 

[Bill Price]

Tesla has been the best thing to happen to my "commute" ever. Free HOV PayPerUse lane .06 per kWh charging at home and with the new Raven S P+L performance and efficiency and comfort its even lightyears better than my first S85D from '15. The dying headlights though.....still plaguing me....

Livin' the dream, eh? Well........except for the headlights. And your electrical rate is almost half what it is here and I thought I had it pretty good.

 

[pdxgibby]

In addition to a few other issues, my driver's side headlight assembly was replaced yesterday. Picked up car today....but the new driver's side signature light (eyebrow) has a distinctly different hue to it. It looks slightly yellow as compared to the bluish hue on the passenger side. They ordered me a different driver's side light and will send mobile to replace once it arrives.

I'm not sure that Tesla is motivated to get an actual fix, but I'm sure the supplier is. Each one that gets replaced is costing them money and eating into their profits.

I was disappointed to read above that even Raven cars have this issue. I'm betting that the supplier still doesn't have an actual fix.

 

[cucubits]

I'm assuming there's no way to keep the defective headlight when Tesla swaps it under warranty.

It would be a cool exercise to take it apart and see that damned DRL strip.

 

[powaking]

7/18 build, `12/18 delivery and both headlights DRL are brownish. Being replaced (hopefully) next week. 18,800 miles on the clock.

 

[M423]

I had them both changed by service under warranty, mobile service came took a while for headlights to come in

 

[Jan Fiala]

I bet after a few months, Tesla will call it an esthetic issue and will stop replacing it. Same crap they did with yellowing MCU.

I love the car, but I'll be really tempted to try a different EV next time. Just because Tesla pisses on its customers and even don't call it rain.

In addition to a few other issues, my driver's side headlight assembly was replaced yesterday. Picked up car today....but the new driver's side signature light (eyebrow) has a distinctly different hue to it. It looks slightly yellow as compared to the bluish hue on the passenger side. They ordered me a different driver's side light and will send mobile to replace once it arrives.

I'm not sure that Tesla is motivated to get an actual fix, but I'm sure the supplier is. Each one that gets replaced is costing them money and eating into their profits.

I was disappointed to read above that even Raven cars have this issue. I'm betting that the supplier still doesn't have an actual fix.