Condensation or moisture build up in rear lighting panel 

If you read through this thread you will that it has been well established that this is a known phenomenon (they do that by design) and there is no solution.

Check out the Ford Edge owners handbook and it will tell you about the condensation in the rear lights.

On 4/16/2019 at 12:59 PM, simonb65 said:

If it beads into water droplets like you are seeing (and is not just a light vapour mist that will naturally clear), I agree with you that this is not acceptable.

 

 

On 7/14/2020 at 1:04 AM, undercoveredge said:

My rear light was misted up/droplets/streaks from about October ( maybe earlier in the year but that is the earliest I had photographic evidence of it )  to late May  - and even then because we had consecutive weeks of zero rain. I ran a hose over the back and got a little misting in there to show Ford, but nothing like as bad so they relied on my photographic evidence. So for months It looked utterly cr*p, let the car down enormously (which we otherwise love btw ) and was something I focussed on every time I looked at the car. No pun intended, it put a real dampener on our purchase which was the most I have ever spent on a car.

I personally think driving around with a misted light unit for over half the year is unacceptable. I have had the occasional sign of misting on a rear cluster, but it disappears soon enough and I am fine with that - the issues people have reported with this central light , including myself, is a different beast I feel - too much water ingress and not designed to vent easily enough.  Is it the design, or the fitment, I don't know but hoping someone will figure it out so we can at least DIY it. I do suspect it might be a conflict of design when running modern LEDs i.e. where heat is not helping the dissipation

 I really wish I had been able to keep the old light unit so I could do some experiments to see where the problem lies,  e.g. maybe seal the bulb holes and done a dunk test , as I feel I will at some point have the same issue.  Saw a youtube of a guy who removed it, dried it out and sealed across the top but not convinced - not seen a follow up vid to confirm it was a good fix.    I think I would be more relaxed if it was a little misting that cleared up over a couple of days - it honestly looked like it had been dragged out of a lake sometimes 🙂

 

what did it set u back to replace it 

is it mot failure is it easy to replace 

thanks