Not a design flaw. Everything is fine. (Better?)

[stuckinparts]

I feel like this is kinda dangerous to not be able to see in this weather, and other drivers not able to see me. Need some form of heat like the halogen bulbs produce to prevent this.

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[fossil]

How do you make homemade ice defroster?

1. Fill a spray bottle with two parts rubbing alcohol to one part of water. ...
2. Generously spray the mixture onto an iced-over windshield. ...
3. For extra-heavy ice on windows, you may need to do a little scraping.

my trucks not LED and has the same problem, I keep a spray bottle in the door pocket every winter.

 

[OrangeBlue]

Other drivers can't see you?

In broad daylight?

OK, then.

 

[stuckinparts]

Other drivers can't see you?

In broad daylight?

OK, then.

I was driving in white out conditions, not broad daylight.

 

[Axlesup]

Back when I drove an 18-wheeler this used to happen all the time not just to the headlights but to the grill which would cause overheating of the engine. If it's cold enough and wet enough anything will get covered in ice. We were trained to stop every once in a while and clean it off with rubbing alcohol much like the above poster mentioned.

With that said I put heated low beams on the LEDs in my 85 Silverado. You can see the lines for the heater on the lens.

I don't see any reason why you couldn't install a similar system on the factory lights if you really just don't want to get out and clean them off.

 

[paneubert]

I was driving in white out conditions, not broad daylight.

Ahh, so whiteout conditions mean this is a design flaw from Ford.

There is a time when you pull over due to unsafe driving conditions. This may have been one of them. Don't want to sound harsh.

I mean.....the more I think about it, the more it was probably good your light output was reduced. Whiteout conditions plus bright lights = you blinded by your own headlights reflecting off the snow causing the whiteout. Right?

 

[Scott Asheville]

Thank you for reminding me why I moved from New England to North Carolina.

 

[Gooberhamm]

 

[stuckinparts]

Never mind. My point was that in my over 30 years of driving and probably at least twice that many vehicles in that time, many different makes and models, never have I had one cake up like this in the front.

 

[Barksdale123]

Living in A Fla. I don't know anything about what is going on here.

 

[Old Man]

Never mind. My point was that in my over 30 years of driving and probably at least twice that many vehicles in that time, many different makes and models, never have I had one cake up like this in the front.

Drive a Jeep Wrangler. They have a cup underneath the headlights that packs with wet snow, even with non-LED. Must not of been one of the 60 cars.

 

[Hillbilly]

Thank you for reminding me why I moved from New England to North Carolina.

You beat me to it

 

[burst710]

or move west.......yikes

 

[Aherpa]

Back when I drove an 18-wheeler this used to happen all the time not just to the headlights but to the grill which would cause overheating of the engine. If it's cold enough and wet enough anything will get covered in ice. We were trained to stop every once in a while and clean it off with rubbing alcohol much like the above poster mentioned.

With that said I put heated low beams on the LEDs in my 85 Silverado. You can see the lines for the heater on the lens.

I don't see any reason why you couldn't install a similar system on the factory lights if you really just don't want to get out and clean them off.

I had just the opposite 'problem' with my 1980 RX7. I replaced the stock headlights with lead crystal ones that bulbs with street legal low beams and 160W high beams.
I had her parked outside in front of my parents garage when a snow storm covered the garage doors with sticky snow. I started her up to warm up and when I came out, the headlights had been accidentally flicked to high beam and they melted the snow on the doors in a nice neat line that matched the beam pattern. She has about 4-5 feet from the doors.
What a fun car. . .

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