2016 tahoe led strips in headlights

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Silva16tahoe

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Anyone else had issues with the leds in the led strips going out? The 4 outside leds quit working on the right headlight on our Tahoe like a month after we got it. They put a new headlight in. Year later and the left one did the same thing. They replaced that headlight. 5 days later the left headlight was doing the same thing. An hour later go to get in it again and now they're all working. Tahoe is an LT so the strips aren't used for DRL's.
 

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Anyone else had issues with the leds in the led strips going out? The 4 outside leds quit working on the right headlight on our Tahoe like a month after we got it. They put a new headlight in. Year later and the left one did the same thing. They replaced that headlight. 5 days later the left headlight was doing the same thing. An hour later go to get in it again and now they're all working. Tahoe is an LT so the strips aren't used for DRL's.
Mine too. Left strip is half out on my LT. I don't know what is causing it. I'm thinking about just replacing both headlamp assemblies with aftermarket.

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Anyone else had issues with the leds in the led strips going out? The 4 outside leds quit working on the right headlight on our Tahoe like a month after we got it. They put a new headlight in. Year later and the left one did the same thing. They replaced that headlight. 5 days later the left headlight was doing the same thing. An hour later go to get in it again and now they're all working. Tahoe is an LT so the strips aren't used for DRL's.

need to replace the whole headlight assembly. have had to twice, luckily under warranty though
 
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Ours is still under warranty too. Guess they can keep replacing them.
 

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I'm thinking about just replacing mine with aftermarkets that look better anyway. Can get 2 for less than 1 OEM replacement

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I hope your 2016 is still under warranty lol.
Must be a common problem ?
 
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Talked with a gm tech in Indianapolis. He's worked on two Tahoe with this same issue. He said it ended up being two wires in the headlight wiring harness that melted and were grounding out. They were under the dash in both vehicles.
 

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Talked with a gm tech in Indianapolis. He's worked on two Tahoe with this same issue. He said it ended up being two wires in the headlight wiring harness that melted and were grounding out. They were under the dash in both vehicles.

do you happen to have any more info on this? mine have gone out yet again and i'm getting tired of having to explain to dealer that there is something else going on with my truck
 

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If you are having a problem and it is melting wiring, need to report it to safercar.gov since this could cause a vehicle fire. If there are enough complaints, NHTSA will start an investigation, which could result in a recall.
 

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