This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
The windshield cracked for no reason I never saw anything hit it or never heard anything hit it. It looks like it started at the edge of the glass. Then the crack began to spread over night while car was sitting, because I woke up the next morning in the crack was way longer.
I went into a store. When I came out, there was a S shaped crack in the windshield, starting on the passenger side. No cars were parked near mine. The crack seemed to appear spontaneously.
Two oem windshields cracked (including the original) within 1 week of either buying the car or replacing them. Both windshields' crack started from the middle of either the supporting left or right bars, go in for about 6 inches, and then curved downward. Vehicle was in motion, no car in front of us to kick up gravel, no impact point on glass.
A crack spontaneously appeared on my windshield a few days ago..it looks like an edge crack that just formed while it was stationary on my driveway and doesn't appear to be formed by contact with any object. This car is just 4 months old and has not been driven much. I believe this is a defect in the glass!
I was sitting in my car, waiting for someone to bring out something. The car only had just over 100 miles on it, and I'd only driven it 3 times (including this one) when suddenly there was a crack sound and a large (1'-1.5') curved crack appeared on the passenger side of the windshield. I called my dealership (the car was a week in my possession the day this happened) and told them what had happened. Immediately they began telling me that I must have been hit by a rock. I told them that I wasn't moving and they said to bring it in. When I arrived the woman who 'handles all their glass claims' told me that a rock had hit my windshield. I told her again that it had not, that I had not been moving, and that the only time the car was not being driven by me, was when the dealership had it, and that at no time that it was in my possession did a rock hit it. She insisted that the cracks don't just happen on their own and that a rock must have hit it.
Vehicle was stationary in a parking lot while at work. Noticed the crack immediately upon leaving work. The crack stems near passenger side bottom of windshield near wiper and goes toward center middle of windshield.
I got into my car one morning and the wind shield was cracked at the mid/lower bottom. Glass shards were present in 1 location and over time the crack spread and another location w/ chips/shards was present.
We were driving on a highway and noticed that the window had a small crack without hearing a rock or pebble hit the window. Over next few days the crack went across the window. It seems like the windows are too prone to cracks and crack more easily than they should. Subaru replaced the windshield at no cost to us which we were happy about, but wanted to document that it seems they have more fragile windshields in case this happens again.
While driving on expressway at 70 mph the passenger side windshield cracked about 5 inches from the side of the glass. When stationary the crack continued to expand.
While parked in a stationary position in a private parking lot for approximately 12 hours overnight, the windshield cracked in an "S" shape from the left edge all the way to just a few inches short of the center.
Our windshield cracked for no apparent reason. The car is only a few months old and has 4000 miles on it. I noticed the crack while the car was in our garage. I seems to have happened while the car was stationary. This seems like a manufacturing defect. I need to contact the Subaru dealer to see what they say.
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- Cameron Park, CA, USA