2022 Kia Telluride

I was driving and a small pebble hit my windshield from a truck traveling in the opposite direction. The crack spidered out slightly. After 1 hour it traveled halfway across the windshield in my line of vision. I believe this is a defect with the Tellurides thin windshield glass as a normal car windshield that was hit by a small pebble could have been repaired instead of having to be replaced due to traveling through the window.

I have a 2022 Telluride I purchased from the dealer in May/22 and after 3 months the windshield cracked starting from the bottom corner of driver side almost across the entire windshield. The crack happened while the car was parked in the garage overnight, I found later a small chip maybe caused by a pebble. I did some reasearch online and this same problem has been reported multiple times on Kia forums. I talked to the dealer and they said this is not covered by manufacturing warranty.

Small rock hit windshield on very edge, the initial impact only produced a chip not much larger than the tip of a ballpoint pen but within minutes a large crack has spread at least 18" across the windshield. Based on research online this is unfortunately a very common issue and has been going on since at least 2019 when the company acknowledged the issue with a "goodwill" customer service initiative to replace damaged windshields for this exact issue. Still waiting to hear from dealer on potential resolution.

The forward collision-avoidance assist, FCA is the main component that failed on me numerous times before inevitably ending in a car accident. The car is currently with my insurance company StateFarm, to assess the damage and to see if it was a total loss or not. They have had it since the accident that occurred back on August 20, 2022. The car had multiple electrical issues that unfortunately were temperamental as to when they would happen so because of that I started to take video on my phone when ever they did happen to show the dealership of the malfunction when it happened so they could see with their own eyes that there was a problem. I attempted to have the dealership fix it but the GM nicely said, "if it doesn't happen with us then it then it didn't really happen and we don't care if you have video or not! That's our policy so sorry about your luck!!!" it was the FCA and the lane keeping assistance that were the 2 main parts that malfunctioned that risked my safety and the safety of others. The FCA is what malfunctioned during the accident. It would randomly slam on the brakes as if I was about to hit something and the lights would flash and the beeping would sound each time it did this even though there was nothing around me. The other times it had done this to me prior it would only happen 1 time and then it would go back to normal but the date of the accident it continued to malfunction over and over again. There were sensors broken on the car from the moment i drove it off the lot back in April of 2022 and have had replaced. The FCA had been malfunctioning Since early June and I first reported it to Kia back on June 22nd 2022. Kia just sent me a letter confirming the FCA does malfunction but its to late now! I have so much more to report but not enough space to tell you everything! They could of helped me when I showed them proof but they didn't care. Their negligence risked my life and my children's lives!!!

The instrument panel that displays the mileage, and other things you can select with the mode such as tire pressure, fuel economy, range remaining on the tank of gas goes blank. The main instrument panel display randomly goes out from the moment it starts to the end of that drive, most of the time it works but some drives it's completely blank the entire time, rather you restart several times or not.

While driving at approximately 35 MPH, with no vehicles, pedestrians, lawnmowers, trees, road hazards, etc., near, the windshield spontaneously cracked near the passenger side pillar. The initial crack was circular with spider-webbing, the longest of which was approximately 6 inches (not exact due to being measured with a hand as reference). The vehicle was immediately parked, and upon return to the vehicle 1 hour and 45 minutes later, the spider-webbing had spread to approximately half the length of the windshield from the initial crack at the passenger side, to the driver side. My wife confirmed that there were no vehicles traveling the opposite direction, no pedestrians, overpasses, trees, vehicles, or other logical causes near the vehicle immediately following the initial crack. It seemed to occur spontaneously, my wife stated she heard what she could best describe as "the sound of glass cracking like in a horror movie" and observed the initial crack. Due to the rate of the spreading, and fear of further integrity failures, the vehicle is parked. I contacted Kia due to the 2020 good will letter concerning windshields, and was told this did not apply to the 2022 due to it not being the appropriate year, and would have to cover the replacement of the window out of pocket or through insurance. No warnings, no noise indicative of something striking the windshield, no damage to any other components including the paint, etc. It just seemingly cracked, the only reason I could deduce is due to the temperature today being approximately 85 degrees, and the vehicle was parked in the sunlight due to the parking not being shaded. Perhaps the exposure resulted in the initial failure and subsequent spider-webbing. This vehicle was purchased brand new on 12 June, 2022.

The contact owns a 2022 Kia Telluride. The contact stated while placing the tongue of the seat belt into the receiver, the driver’s side front seat belt assembly separated from the body of the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and the seat belt assembly was torqued to the manufacturer specs. The other seat belt assemblies were checked. The manufacturer was contacted and stated that the vehicle needed to be diagnosed. The failure mileage was 4,040.