Hyundai Windshields are Cracking - Customers File Lawsuit

Any ideas on how we can file a class action suit or recall? Seems these Hyundai windshields are faulty. Less than a year old 2021 Santa Fe (Manufactured May 2021) and I had to replace a windshield already.

I lease a 2020 Hyundai tuscon. My windshield cracked in 2021 and the replacement windshield in 2022. I have never had this happened to me in my 40years of owning cars. Maybe 2x before on different cars over the years after getting hit by a pebble

It was a Hyundai OEM windshield. I've called the NHTSA and filed a complaint and an investigation is underway. They said more people need to do this then it may get a recall started.

Thanks Roger, I will file one online tmro.

I filed a complaint with the NHTSA about our 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe SEL windshield cracks and they said everyone needs to file their complaint if want to ever get a recall started on these windshields. My complaint is under investigation by NHTSA now.

I filed a complaint with the NHTSA about our 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe SEL windshield cracks and they said everyone needs to file their complaint if want to ever get a recall started on these windshields. My complaint is under investigation by NHTSA now.

Brand new 2022 Venue. Had chip in windshield just from driving home from lot after purchase. Today it has a big crack in a different area on the windshield. We drove home on the interstate, did not notice anything hit the windshield or the crack. Now there is a huge one. I will have to replace the windshield. I have owned the car for 5 months.

Hi, file a complaint with the NHTSA online. Maybe if there are enough complaints, Hyundai will be forced to issue a recall. I hope you have full glass coverage.

My Hyundai Elantra windshield cracked without anything hitting it. No chips at all. I took it to a dealership to fix it under warranty. The service attendant ran a pen along the crack and stopped at a corner. He said it must be a chip if his pen stops anywhere along the crack. What a great excuse for never covering a windshield in the warranty. Even under close examination with our eyes there is no sign of a microscopic chip, apparently a 50 cent pen is the divining rod of all windshield warranty damage.

My 2021 Santa Fe windshield cracked and it seems to have come out of nowhere. I haven’t called my insurance company yet but plan to. I bought an extended warranty on the vehicle and if not covered by insurance, hopefully it will be covered by the warranty. But reading everyone’s comments, I’m guessing it’s not covered. My car only has 15,000 miles on it.

It's not about the warranty or insurance coverage we are upset about lady. It's the poor quality and unsafe windshields that are put in these vehicles that Hyundai needs to own up to. Mine has cracked twice and spread all over the windshield. I'm on my second windshield in only 7 months of owning this 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe.

It's not about the warranty or insurance coverage we are upset about lady. It's the poor quality and unsafe windshields that are put in these vehicles that Hyundai needs to own up to. Mine has cracked twice and spread all over the windshield. I'm on my second windshield in only 7 months of owning this 2021 Hyundai Santa Fe.

Save your nasty comments and anger for Hyundai, not me, you idiot, I am on this thread because I also had to replace two windshields and put a complaint in to NHTSA. Why else would I be on this site? I have other posts on here. In that particular post I was trying to help the person hopefully get her windshield fixed through her insurance, if she had full windshield coverage. The insurance company might not cover it if they said it was due to a defective windshield but it would cover replacement if a pebble hit her car. My comment had nothing to do Hyundai not taking responsiblity for defective windshields, but at $850 a pop, it hurts a little less if its not coming out of your own pocket.

At the 6000 mile mark, I sat down in my 2022 Ioniq Hybrid and put it in drive to go on a work assignment out of state. I heard what can be described as a small caliber gunshot sound and there was a 6" crack right in the middle of the passenger side windshield. I put the car in park, got out to inspect it and the crack just kept expanding, in a arch pattern, completely across the windshield, and started back across. I got with Hyundai here, one dealership said it's not their problem very rudely, so I escalated it to Hyundai customer care. They finally set up an appointment with a different dealership nearly 2 months after the fact. That tech agreed that it is a faulty windshield with no impact marks, and sent the request to Hyundai. After nearly a week (after I was told 1 day) they finally told the tech not to replace it, that it wasn't their problem. Needless to say, I am fuming at this point. I have never been treated so rudely by a company (with the exception of my customer care rep the current tech). I'm now stuck with a car I obviously can't trust, with an extended warranty that is meaningless. At this point, I gave Hyundai one last chance to do the correct thing. Unless the window get fixed immediately, I will be getting rid of this vehicle for something else that I can trust will protect my family.

We bought q 2023 Elantra SEL in June of 2022. A pebble hit the windshield and left a long crack in September of 2022. I had to get a OEM windshield because of the cars age. The windshield was on back order so the new one was not in until the beginning on November. It is not the end of November and another pebble has hit the windshield leaving it broken. I have NEVER had a windshield crack from a pebble let alone a 2 BRAND NEW OEM windshields crack back to back

Thats what I went through too. Report it to NHTSA website. Maybe if there are enough complaints Hyundai will have a recall n reimburse people who have had to pay out of pocket if they didnt have glass coverage. Hold onto your receipt.

I have had my 2022 Tucson for a year and a half and i was driving down the road there was no other cars on the road and out of nowhere I heard a loud pop and there was a crack in my windshield down low almost in the middle. i am going to watch it and see if it grows.

We had the same thing happen to our 2022 Genesis GV80 yesterday (Genesis is the luxury brand of Hyundai). We were driving down the highway when a crack appeared out of nowhere. No rock chip, we didn't hit anything, no cars around us, nothing! It appears to be stemming from where the collision avoidance sensors meet up with the windshield.
Looking online, replacement is going to be well over $2000.
We already paid a premium for the car, now we have to pay a premium for sub-standard glass?!
My wife loves her GV80, but something like this can't be tolerated.
Genesis/Hyundai better get all over this ASAP. In my opinion, they're the best cars sold in America, there's no need to ruin that reputation over defective glass.

I bought a new 2022 Hyundai Elantra last year. Yesterday a long horizontal crack appeared at the top of the driver side window. We did not hear a pebble or anything else hit the windshield. There is no sign of impact. It seems to be a stress crack.

I have a 2015 Hyundai Accent, and the same thing just happen to me 4 days ago. I heard something that sounded like a stone hit my vehicle while driving on the highway. I thought the truck ahead of me in the adjacent name must have kick up a stone. But I didn't see a stone chip anywhere when I checked later. The next day a crack appeared on the passenger side of my windshield. I will have to pay $500 deductible to my insurance. I've been driving for 49 years and I've never had a windshield crack! Notify me when someone gets a class action going!

Just for comparison I’m driving a 2006 Toyota Matrix 235k I have had two absolute thunder cracking stones hit my windshield and yes chips but no cracks yet over 2 years and I know this problem on Hyundai because my brother purchased a new 2021 Elantra little stone on windshield phoof cracked under wiper hard to notice got it replaced month later cracked again😳

So far they haven’t fixed the issue. I’ve had my car for 1.5 years a 22 IONIQ 5 and I’ve had to replace my windshield 3 times now. No evidence of rocks hitting just cracking from the far edges that extend horizontally. I paid my car off and intended to keep it for a long time, now I’m thinking I made a mistake and should not have done that because now I’m stuck with a car that keeps my insurance high because I have to keep entering glass claims. If I get another car I’m going back to Toyota, I only left because the didn’t make an all electric car.

I have a 2023 Hyundai Sonata Limited that has 3Plus windshield cracked in 2400 miles in less than 6 months. The car has only 8700 miles on it now and as of now I am driving it with the third crack plus it just picked up a new chip that will no doubt turn in to a crack. both of the previous windshields also were showing tiny pits when examined closely, like they had been in a sandstorm, which they had not been.

I am nearly 83 years old and have had dozens of cars and trucks and have only ever replaced 1 windshield prior to this. I also owned a 22 Kia Forte that had a windshield issue.