Sportage Windscreen

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triple5

Original Poster:

752 posts

153 months

Tuesday 12th March 2019
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Firstly thanks to the mods for our spangly new place to hang out.

Anyone else noticed what looks like very fine crazing in the glass, noticeable when driving into bright sunlight, it can also be seen at night giving headlights a star burst effect and can be very distracting.

As far as I know it’s the original windscreen, is this just rubbish OE glass or is mine just a poor example.

anonymous-user

62 months

Tuesday 12th March 2019
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Had one for 3 years... Never noticed anything. Sounds like crazing in the coating maybe? Has it had some sort of semi permanent anti-rain treatment that's breaking down?

denzilpc

153 posts

183 months

Tuesday 12th March 2019
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is it a heated screen if so sunlight picks up the heater elements on some heated screens

triple5

Original Poster:

752 posts

153 months

Wednesday 13th March 2019
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Good suggestions but not heated and no coating that I'm aware of.

Quite hard to explain but when you look really closely it's lots of small cracks all the same length (approx 3mm), it's consistent over the whole screen right into the corners. looks like a manufacturing fault, but wondered if this was a common Kia thing.