Hey
I'm new to toyotanation but very glad to find a place to talk about my Toyota. I bought a 2015 Corolla in August only to find a very weird bifocal/magnifying glass effect right in the center of the driver's side of the windshield. It was almost like looking through my grandmother's reading glasses and the end result was a full-on migraine after driving the car for more than 10 minutes. Took it to dealer, they saw it too, replaced it, only to find that the second windshield had the same problem in a different spot but still was undriveable. Again they agreed with me and replaced it a second time. Now the THIRD windshield still has issues!! It's better and doesn't immediately give me a tension headache but when driving it's like looking through water or very thin glass, and it makes the treeline, road, and even other cars appear like there are waves running through them. I'ts really like looking through an aquarium or something. It's so bizarre, I've never seen anything like this before. Toyota is refusing to replace the third windshield and so i'm stuck replacing it on my own with aftermarket glass, but this carries its own issues.
So, my question is has ANYONE else seen this in the OEM windshields on the 2015 or 2016 model?? Asashi Glass Corp is making the factory windshields for the new models, in the past i think Toyota has used Pilkington, not sure. Regardless, something very wrong is happening during manufacturing of the windshields and Toyota is still slapping them on all the new models. there are some smaller ripples over on the right side of the windshield too that the dearlership did see, and the explanation i was provided with from the dealership AND corporate was "we compared your windshield to some other 2016s on the lot and the ripples appear to be an effect in all of them so, unfortunately nothing can be done." I've never had a company admit fault and then refuse to do anything about it. I'm just left scratching my head over this one.
I'm new to toyotanation but very glad to find a place to talk about my Toyota. I bought a 2015 Corolla in August only to find a very weird bifocal/magnifying glass effect right in the center of the driver's side of the windshield. It was almost like looking through my grandmother's reading glasses and the end result was a full-on migraine after driving the car for more than 10 minutes. Took it to dealer, they saw it too, replaced it, only to find that the second windshield had the same problem in a different spot but still was undriveable. Again they agreed with me and replaced it a second time. Now the THIRD windshield still has issues!! It's better and doesn't immediately give me a tension headache but when driving it's like looking through water or very thin glass, and it makes the treeline, road, and even other cars appear like there are waves running through them. I'ts really like looking through an aquarium or something. It's so bizarre, I've never seen anything like this before. Toyota is refusing to replace the third windshield and so i'm stuck replacing it on my own with aftermarket glass, but this carries its own issues.
So, my question is has ANYONE else seen this in the OEM windshields on the 2015 or 2016 model?? Asashi Glass Corp is making the factory windshields for the new models, in the past i think Toyota has used Pilkington, not sure. Regardless, something very wrong is happening during manufacturing of the windshields and Toyota is still slapping them on all the new models. there are some smaller ripples over on the right side of the windshield too that the dearlership did see, and the explanation i was provided with from the dealership AND corporate was "we compared your windshield to some other 2016s on the lot and the ripples appear to be an effect in all of them so, unfortunately nothing can be done." I've never had a company admit fault and then refuse to do anything about it. I'm just left scratching my head over this one.
