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KIA/Hyndai windshields are hot garbage. You should try to add glass coverage on your insurance. I have a $50 deductible on mine and safelite replaced it with an aftermarket windshield that won’t crack. Plus my HUD still works on my SX Prestige
Pros: HUD still works
Cons: windshields are hot garbage
Mine is still holding on well after almost a year and a half despite several roadtrips on I-80 and a particularly terrible drive to Fargo where a couple of gigantic semis were on the opposite end of a milled one-lane road and flung a bunch of stuff on to my windshield.
Pros: holding on well, durable
Vehicle:
Kia Sportage
Had to have our Tesla windshield replaced last year, but it’s good as new.
Pros: good as new
Just had safelite do mine and I don’t recall the brand on the glass but it’s not Tesla. Looks fine to me no issues. Actually the previous windshield was replace by Tesla and the glass quality was not good. I almost took it back to them. Had small waves in it that produced a distortion at certain viewing angles. Then it cracked. It also had a lot of small chips in it way more than other vehicles in the past so maybe this new brand will be better
Pros: no issues
Cons: glass quality was not good
We’ve had a 2025 Kia Carnival EX for a little more than 4 months and less than 4,000 miles. Twice in the past month we’ve had a rock from the highway flip up and crack the windshield. We hadn’t even had a chance to schedule the first small repair when this second (very large) crack happened.
Cons: cracks easily, poor durability
Vehicle:
Kia Carnival
Mileage: 6437 km
Their windshield/glass quality sucks. I had to get two replacement windshields as both had horrible distortion in the driver's field of view.
Cons: poor quality, visual distortion
We had an issue like this with our 2020 Kia Telluride, where you could tell how cheap and thin the new Windshield was. One little chip and it was already running through out the whole Windshield; it was a really soft hit too.
Cons: cheap, thin, easily cracked
Vehicle:
Kia
We went on a trip in the new car and everyone felt that the heat rejection from the windshield isn't impressive or nearly as good as the Baleno. The Baleno, in my experience, cuts out 90%+ of the heat from direct sunlight falling on your body and the Seltos is at maybe 30%.
Pros: Baleno cuts out heat
Cons: Seltos heat rejection poor
Vehicle:
Kia
I had a Sportage 2023 and kia for the first time and had to replace windshield twice in the one year I Had the car. I drive benz and I get rocks and hit on the glass and never had I ever replaced a windshield on them. I agree these kia windshields are weaker
Cons: replaced twice in year, weaker glass
Vehicle:
Kia Sportage
Same thing happened with my forte
Cons: cracked easily
Vehicle:
Kia
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