Has anyone had this happen?
I was walking past my XC70 last week and with the way the light hit the tail lights I noticed what looked like a crack in the rear lense. I went to look closer and sure enough, there were actually hundreds of small cracks on all parts of the rear lenses including brakes, reverse - everywhere. My car was scheduled for its service today so I thought I would bring it up. Service manager let me know that I am just out of warranty (4000 km) for anything to be done and good luck!
There are no points of impact or even scratches on the lenses and I have been using the "touchless" car wash through the winter. The failure mechanism looks like what we learned about way back in engineering school and is known as "Crazing" which occurs when parts are not properly cured and internal stresses remain in the material. Since I can't explain it any better here are some photos.
Has anyone seen this before? Any luck getting Volvo to replace the lenses?
thanks for your thoughts.
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