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Easter Sunday LED taillight weekend update!
All four OEM LED taiilight assemblies on our 2011 X3 have failed at different times over the past three years. That took eight visits to the dealer, one visit for diagnosis and parts ordering and a second visit in each case for installation. All four OEM LED taillight assemblies were replaced under warranty. Since then the left taiigate LED failed (that's number five) and was replaced under partial warranty but we had to pay a "deductible" for the part. OK with us.
Today, we installed a MeanWell LDD-500HW LED driver in the failed driver-side fender/outboard LED tailiight assembly. That's Valeo LED driver failure number six in our case. We're hoping this doesn't become an Easter Sunday tradition.
The manufacture date on today's replaced failed assembly is 20-08-2014, so there's got to be a lot more bad Valeo LED driver boards in the population. We plan to keep our 2011 X3 35i, now at 91K miles, until it dies so I have a half-dozen MeanWell boards on order.
Thanks again to Smovva his fix.
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