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title: "Headlight Repair Services: LED, DRL, Lens and Condensation"
description: "LED boards, DRL strips, cracked lenses, condensation, broken tabs and xenon faults fixed inside your own headlight, plus the units that are turned away."
url: https://headlightrepairshop.co.uk/headlight-repair/
lang: en-GB
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# Headlight Repair Services

LED boards, running-light strips, lenses, seals, housings and xenon parts: this is work done inside the unit, one failed part at a time. None of it is lens polishing or a restoration kit. Pick the fault below, or send photos and let the quote say which one it is.

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![Looking into an opened headlight: projector, reflector and LED boards seen from where the lens normally sits](https://headlightrepairshop.co.uk/img/headlight-repair_headlight-repair-services.webp)

## Choose by fault

Two kinds of fault have a page of their own; the rest are explained further down.

## LED units and daytime running lights

- [LED Headlight Repair](https://headlightrepairshop.co.uk/headlight-repair/led-headlights/)

## Lenses and housings

- [Headlight Lens Repair and Replacement](https://headlightrepairshop.co.uk/headlight-repair/lens-replacement/)

## Repairs by make

- [Repairs by make and model](https://headlightrepairshop.co.uk/models/)

## Condensation and water inside: lens off and resealed

Water gets into a headlight through a seal that has stopped doing its job, and it happens on recent cars as well as older ones.

Headlight resealing means taking the lens off, clearing out the old sealant and the damp, and closing the unit again with fresh sealant. If the damp has lifted the chrome off the inner trims, those parts are re-chromed in the same job.

To try drying it yourself first, start with [How to Remove Condensation From a Headlight](https://headlightrepairshop.co.uk/guides/remove-headlight-condensation/).

![Fresh black sealant laid in the cleaned channel of a headlight housing before the lens goes back on](https://headlightrepairshop.co.uk/img/headlight-repair_headlight-repair-services_fresh-sealant-bead.webp)

## Broken housings and mounting tabs

A knock that cracks the lens often splits the back of the housing as well, and the tabs that hold it to the car go with it.

A split or holed housing is replaced: every internal part moves across into a new shell, which is then closed with a new lens.

For snapped tabs alone there are two routes, a tab repair kit or a new housing that leaves no trace of the knock, and you choose which. Broken inner trims depend on what the maker still supplies; some can be rebuilt, and parts no longer made can come from a donor unit.

Whether a cracked lens can be taped in the meantime is covered in [our guide to cracked headlights](https://headlightrepairshop.co.uk/guides/cracked-headlight/).

![Close view of a headlight mounting lug snapped at its base, the broken edge showing raw plastic](https://headlightrepairshop.co.uk/img/headlight-repair_headlight-repair-services_snapped-mounting-tab.webp)

## Xenon (HID) headlights: ballast and igniter replaced, lens and seals repaired

On a xenon unit, the ballast, the igniter and the control unit are not mended at component level. A faulty one is swapped for a new unit.

Older xenon projectors can also grow dim as the small glass lens in front of the bulb clouds over from the inside. That lens is cleaned, which is worth ruling out before buying new bulbs.

Cracked lenses and failed seals on xenon units are dealt with the same way as on any other headlight.

![Xenon headlight on a test stand seen from behind, a new ballast connected and the projector lit](https://headlightrepairshop.co.uk/img/headlight-repair_headlight-repair-services_xenon-ballast-test.webp)

## Reflectors and chrome

Damp left inside a unit for long enough lifts the chrome off the reflector and the inner trims, leaving them dull and patchy.

Those parts are taken out, re-chromed and refitted before the headlight is resealed.

## Units we turn away: halogen, rear lights, motorbikes

- Halogen headlights: a new unit usually costs little enough that repair doesn't pay, unless you particularly want to keep the original.
- Rear lights: they are heat-sealed at the factory and can't be opened and closed again cleanly.
- Motorbike headlights: the internal parts are too hard to find to promise a repair.

## Not sure which of these it is?

Send photos of the headlight, switched on if the fault is electrical, and the quote will name the fault and the fix.

[Get a quote](https://headlightrepairshop.co.uk/get-a-quote/)