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White speck inside brand new headlight

H15A

New member
Location
Los Angeles
Just joined the VW family with a 2017 GTI SE.
The next day I was taking some detailed photos of the car, and found that the passenger side headlight has this white speck (debris) on the inside of the headlight. It's sitting inside one of the honeycomb patterns.

Is there any easy way to to get rid of this? Im trying to see what the dealer will be willing to do to fix this. I hope they just replace the entire thing and not have to disassemble the entire headlight.

 

snobrdrdan

former GTI owner
Stuff happens man, and that's really not that big of a deal.

People have had (dead) bugs in their tail lights for example, which sucks too.

But anyways....I'm sure you could just pop the headlight out & then shake the debris out where the bulb goes in. Or try and vacuum/suck it out
 

H15A

New member
Location
Los Angeles
They will most likely use an air lune to blow it deeper inside. Easier to get a thin bit of rubber hose and a vacuum cleaner and get it yourself. You would stand no chance of a new unit.


Update: Dealer did exactly as Finglonga said and got it removed. I saw them remove one of the bulbs to gain access into the housing. They blew compressed air and vacuumed it out. Nice
 
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