Raptor OEM Third LED Brake light

They covered mine under the 3yr/36k mile warranty and another under my extended warranty. Your dealer is yanking your chain. Make them fix it. It's their ****** design that is causing all the issues. After my second one, I pulled the new light and silicone the shit out of it. No issues since.

Good luck!!!

2014RubyRed said:

They covered mine under the 3yr/36k mile warranty and another under my extended warranty. Your dealer is yanking your chain. Make them fix it. It's their ****** design that is causing all the issues. After my second one, I pulled the new light and silicone the shit out of it. No issues since.

Good luck!!!

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did you keep the foam gasket?

RC51TOFUMAN said:

did you keep the foam gasket?

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Yes

2014RubyRed said:

They covered mine under the 3yr/36k mile warranty and another under my extended warranty. Your dealer is yanking your chain. Make them fix it. It's their ****** design that is causing all the issues. After my second one, I pulled the new light and silicone the shit out of it. No issues since.

Good luck!!!

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I just picked up today. I had to get Ford customer service to step in and cover the third brake light replacement. The dealer would only replace the rear window defroster under the extended warranty.

I sealed around the outer edge with silicone today and I hope that'll do it.

Interestingly the fine print under "what's not covered" for the extended warranty does state vaguely that light assemblies are not covered. The service rep just pulled the part number of the housing and showed me that his system deemed it "not covered under active warranties".

Nevertheless I'm just glad Ford Service took care of it, even though in my opinion it should be covered regardless and is a legit safety issue.

David

Make sure you only silicone around the top and sides of the light. I left the bottom undone so the moisture had a place to go.....

2014RubyRed said:

Make sure you only silicone around the top and sides of the light. I left the bottom undone so the moisture had a place to go.....

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good call.....I will have to do that too
I will wait until my 3rd brake light takes a dump......again....

2014RubyRed said:

Make sure you only silicone around the top and sides of the light. I left the bottom undone so the moisture had a place to go.....

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Hmm. Oops I sealed all around. So I should go cut out the seal along the lower edge tomorrow huh?

By the way, after I picked it up today, I drove around town and it rained a bit during. Low and behold I decided to take look and I noticed some moisture bubbles ALREADY around the inner perimeter of the housing, blocked off for now by the Oem foam gasket. Terrible.

I did also notice upon close examination that each of the 4 inner integrated screws for LED lights had what appeared to be hard plastic white washers under the screws. Is it possible the later Oem replacement housings had better inner sealing? I don't remember if my previous housing had those washers.

RaptorEnthusiast said:

Hmm. Oops I sealed all around. So I should go cut out the seal along the lower edge tomorrow huh?

By the way, after I picked it up today, I drove around town and it rained a bit during. Low and behold I decided to take look and I noticed some moisture bubbles ALREADY around the inner perimeter of the housing, blocked off for now by the Oem foam gasket. Terrible.

I did also notice upon close examination that each of the 4 inner integrated screws for LED lights had what appeared to be hard plastic white washers under the screws. Is it possible the later Oem replacement housings had better inner sealing? I don't remember if my previous housing had those washers.

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They did update the design. And yes, remove some of the silicone on the bottom. That might be the moisture you are already seeing......

2014RubyRed said:

They did update the design. And yes, remove some of the silicone on the bottom. That might be the moisture you are already seeing......

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So I'm assuming the replacement housings you've received over the course of ownership were all "improved". Your brake lights still got destroyed by water leakage even with the reinforced washer seals?

How much if an improvement is the design now compared to the old? Honest question.

RaptorEnthusiast said:

So I'm assuming the replacement housings you've received over the course of ownership were all "improved". Your brake lights still got destroyed by water leakage even with the reinforced washer seals?

How much if an improvement is the design now compared to the old? Honest question.

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I've got a 2014, so I'm assuming I had the latest model. I heard that some of the older ones were messed up even worse. I haven't had any issue with mine or seen any moisture since I siliconed it. I think the stock gasket is shit, so that is still a problem......