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Old Feb 20, 2014 | 10:27 PM
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I noticed on Hyundais the headlight assemblies come with a rubber tube on them

is this to prevent condensation inside of the headlight? Should I seal it?
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Old Feb 23, 2014 | 01:21 PM
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It's a vent I think. It seems like it could prevent condensation. If you have visible condensation, it's probably because of a crack or a broken seam somewhere else.



If they put a tube, some engineer was paid good money to figure out just where to put it and the tooling was made more expensive to mold the tube mount . . . it's probably a good idea they put it where they did.
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Old Feb 23, 2014 | 03:12 PM
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it is a vent, without it your headlights would get condensation on the inside, it's there so the housing can "breathe". Don't seal it up.
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